SerenityOS/serenity
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
About the project
A self-contained Unix-like operating system for x86-64, Arm and RISC-V with its own kernel, GUI, browser, applications and ports of popular software. Built from scratch as a hobby project blending late-90s desktop aesthetics with late-2000s Unix power-user feel.
Useful for
- Study kernel and userland source code for learning purposes
- Cross-compile the OS and run it in QEMU
- Write or port applications for SerenityOS
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Why it’s trending
- 3 stars so far today, about 6 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #15, +8 stars.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 33,872
- Today
- 3 · ≈ 6 by evening
- Forks
- 3,544
- Issues and pull requests
- 26,988
- Watchers
- 411
- Language
- C++
- License
- BSD-2-Clause
- Created
- December 2, 2018
- Last push
- September 28, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 28, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #15, +8 stars
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