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-date = 2022-09-17
-title = "Serenity OS: Testing Out a Unique System"
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-# Overview
-
-[SerenityOS](https://serenityos.org) 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:
-
-> 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.
-
-# 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:
-
-```sh
-git clone https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity && cd serenity
-```
-
-## Build
-
-Note that I followed the [Build
-Instructions](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documentation/BuildInstructions.md)
-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:
-
-```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
-```
-
-Next, make sure you're inside the `serenity` directory created earlier during
-the git cloning process and process to build the toolchain:
-
-```sh
-Meta/serenity.sh rebuild-toolchain
-```
-
-Once the toolchain is built, you can Build and run the OS!
-
-```sh
-Meta/serenity.sh run
-```
-
-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.
-
-There is also a "Fire" application (literally just shows fire burning), a
-browser with the local Serenity Browser page loaded, and a text editor.
-
-I also poked around the system utilities and found most tools you'd expect to
-find within a standard desktop, such as a system monitoring tool.
-
-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.
-
-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.