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diff --git a/blog/serenity-os/index.org b/blog/serenity-os/index.org deleted file mode 100644 index ccb9049..0000000 --- a/blog/serenity-os/index.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,116 +0,0 @@ -#+title: Serenity OS: Testing Out a Unique System -#+date: 2022-09-17 -#+description: A quick look at the Serenity operating system. -#+filetags: :dev: - -* Overview -[[https://serenityos.org][SerenityOS]] is a unique operating system (OS) -that I have seen pop up in my news feed a few times over the last few -years, but I have never had time to test it out until now. - -Testing out this system brought back fond memories of yellowed, -modem-screeching, 100-pound computers that brought so many fond memories -to my youth. - -Per their website: - -#+begin_quote -A graphical Unix-like operating system for desktop computers! - -SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom -Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas -from various other systems. - -Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of -late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of -late-2000s *nix. - -This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like. - -#+end_quote - -* Building -Your first question may be "Where's the iso?" and the answer is... there -are none. SerenityOS does not provide pre-built images for testing. You -must build the images yourself. This seems intentionally to limit -participation to only those who are truly interested enough to learn how -to build the OS. - -** Clone -In order to get started, you'll need to clone the source repository: - -#+begin_src sh -git clone https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity && cd serenity -#+end_src - -** Build -Note that I followed the -[[https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documentation/BuildInstructions.md][Build -Instructions]] in the SerenityOS repository as of commit -=660d2b53b1206e868d5470eee80b5e62d7e30da7=. Things may have changed -since my installation, and you should double-check the instructions -first. - -Regardless, I want to repeat my steps here to illustrate any errors or -differing commands I needed to run in order to build and run SerenityOS. - -Since I am running Fedora, I needed to install these packages in order -to build the OS images: - -#+begin_src sh -sudo dnf install texinfo binutils-devel curl cmake mpfr-devel libmpc-devel gmp-devel e2fsprogs ninja-build patch ccache rsync @"C Development Tools and Libraries" @Virtualization -#+end_src - -Next, make sure you're inside the =serenity= directory created earlier -during the git cloning process and process to build the toolchain: - -#+begin_src sh -Meta/serenity.sh rebuild-toolchain -#+end_src - -Once the toolchain is built, you can Build and run the OS! - -#+begin_src sh -Meta/serenity.sh run -#+end_src - -After this process is completed, the image should run automatically and -launch. - -* Issues -I played around in SerenityOS for an hour or two in order to see what I -could do and had a lot of fun with it. The only issue I ran into was a -lack of working internet. I didn't try very hard, but I could tell that -the main network link wasn't connecting to my Fedora host properly. - -* Screenshots -The initial launch of the image displays the SerenityOS desktop, with a -simple terminal already launched: - -#+caption: SerenityOS Terminal -[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20220917-serenityos/initial_launch.png]] - -Here you can see the Fire application (literally just shows fire -burning), a browser with the local Serenity Browser page loaded, and a -text editor. - -#+caption: SerenityOS Fire -[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20220917-serenityos/basic_apps.png]] - -I also poked around the system utilities and found most tools you'd -expect to find within a standard desktop. - -#+caption: SerenityOS System Monitor -[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20220917-serenityos/system_monitor.png]] - -Lastly, I noted that the default desktop contains numerous pre-defined -themes to choose from. This is a small piece, but it's actually -wonderful to see desktop developers consider theming directly out of the -box rather than using an addon-based mentality. - -#+caption: SerenityOS Themes -[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20220917-serenityos/themes.png]] - -I didn't take a screenshot of the other pre-installed games, but I did -spend nearly 30 minutes playing Solitaire before remembering that I was -supposed to be writing a post about the OS. |