Difference between revisions of "Sugar System Stack"

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Sugar is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. Sugar Activities ("Sugarized applications") are accessed by the user in the Sugar platform, integrated into a single Journal for storage, and are often designed with peer collaboration as a primary feature.

Journal Content	meta-tagged content datastore
Sugar Activities	Browse \| Chat \| Read \| Write \| Record \| EToys \| Turtle Art \| Terminal \| et al...
Sugar Platform	Sugar Platform Stack: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack
Operating System	Fedora \| Debian \| Ubuntu \| Linux, other \| LTSP \| Mac OSX \| MS Windows (emulation) \| ...
Hardware Platform	OLPC XO-1	ASUS EEE PC	Intel Classmate	OLPC XO-2	...

The layers in a Sugar system are:

Sugar System Stack (ASCII Text)

Sugar Labs has borrowed names from carbohydrate chemistry, which includes sugar, to personalize and help distinguish pieces of Sugar software. See Taxonomy and On the Naming of Sugar for background.

System Stack Illustration

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-=Sugar Application Stack=
+[[What is Sugar?|Sugar]] is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. Sugar [[Activities]] ("Sugarized applications") are accessed by the user in the Sugar platform, integrated into a single Journal for storage, and are often designed with peer collaboration as a primary feature.
-Sugar is designed to encourage children that have not been exposed
-or indoctrinated in any exiting computing environment. It has
-Activities rather that programs or applications. Sugar is
-implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems
-and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user in Sugar.
-One of the Activities, Browse, has lets the student examine
-library collections. Some of these are included with the
-Sugar system. Others may be installed from the web or they
-can be created locally.
+{|align="right" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: solid 1px gray;"
+|- align="center" style="background:#ffc0c0;"
+|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''[[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Journal]]<br>Content'''
+|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content datastore
+|- align="center" style="background:#ffffd0;"
+||'''Sugar<br>[[Activities]]'''
+|colspan="8"| Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | [[Activities|et al...]]
+|- align="center" style="background:#e0ffe0;"
+||'''Sugar<br>Platform'''
+|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack
+|- align=center style="background:#e0e0ff;"
+||'''Operating<br>System'''
+|colspan="8"| [[Fedora]] | [[Debian]] | [[Ubuntu]] | [[Packaging Team|Linux, other]] | [[wikipedia:Linux_Terminal_Server_Project | LTSP]] | [[olpc:Sugar_on_MacOS_X |Mac OSX]] | [[Windows|MS Windows (emulation)]] | [[Packaging Team|...]]
+|- align=center style="background:#ffffff;"
+||'''Hardware<br>Platform'''
+||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO XO-1]
+||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus ASUS]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC EEE PC]
+||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel Intel]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC Classmate]
+||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 XO-2]
+|colspan="4"|...
+|}
 The layers in a Sugar system are:
- - Library Collections (Browse Activity)
+* [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal | Journal]]
- - Activities
+* [[Activities]]
- - Sugar
+* [[Sugar Platform Stack]]
- - OS
+* [[Packaging Team|Operating System]]
- - Hardware
+* Computer Hardware
+[[Sugar System Stack (ASCII Text)]]
+Sugar Labs has borrowed names from [[wikipedia:Carbohydrate | carbohydrate]] chemistry, which includes sugar, to personalize and help distinguish pieces of Sugar software. See [[Taxonomy]] and [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar@lists.laptop.org/msg03195.html On the Naming of Sugar] for background.
+== System Stack Illustration ==
-Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:
+[[Image:Sugar Taxonomy.png|centre|450px]]
-{| border=1 cellpadding=3
-|-
-|colspan=8|Library collections: pre-installed and from the Web or locally created
-|- align=center
-|colspan=8|'''Sugar Activities'''
-|- align=center
-|colspan=4|Browse||Write||Etoys||TurtleArt||...
-|- align=center
-|colspan=8|'''Sugar'''
-|- align=center
-|colspan=8|'''underlying operating system'''
-|- align=center
-|style="width:80px"|Fedora||style="width:80px"|Debian||style="width:80px"|Ubuntu||style="width:80px"|other Linux||style="width:80px"|LTSP||style="width:80px"|Mac OSX||style="width:80px"|MS Windows (QEMU)||style="width:80px"|...
-|- align=center
-|colspan=8|'''underlying hardware platform'''
-|- align=center
-||OLPC XO-1||ASUS EEE PC||Intel Classmate||colspan=5|...
-|}
-<!--
-<pre>
-----------------------------------------------------------
-|      Library Collections |       |       |       |     |
-| Pre-installed    Locally-|       |       |Turtle |     |
-|        From-web  created |       | EToys |  Art  | ... |
-|--------------------------| Write |       |       |     |
-|          Browse          |       |       |       |     |
-----------------------------------------------------------
-|                         Sugar                          |
-----------------------------------------------------------
-|  XOS   |   Linux  |   MacOSX  |  MSWindows+QEMU  | ... |
-----------------------------------------------------------
-|   OLPC XO   |   Asus EEE PC  |  Intel Classmate  | ... |
-----------------------------------------------------------
-</pre>
--->
 [[Category:Supported systems]]
+[[Category:Developer]]

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