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[[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.
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Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to
 
or indoctrinated into any existing computing environment.
 
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===The Sugar Stack===
 
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, integrate into a single Journal for storing, and are often designed with peer collaboration as a primary feature.
 
  
== Sugar Application Stack ==
 
  
 
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{|align="right" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: solid 1px gray;"
  
 
|- align="center" style="background:#ffc0c0;"
 
|- align="center" style="background:#ffc0c0;"
|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''Journal<br>Content'''
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|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''[[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Journal]]<br>Content'''
|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content
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|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content datastore
  
 
|- align="center" style="background:#ffffd0;"
 
|- align="center" style="background:#ffffd0;"
||'''Sugar<br>Activities'''
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||'''Sugar<br>[[Activities]]'''
|Browse
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|colspan="8"| Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | [[Activities|et al...]]
|Read
 
|Write
 
|Record
 
|EToys
 
|TurtleArt
 
|colspan="2"|[[Activities|et al...]]
 
 
 
 
|- align="center" style="background:#e0ffe0;"
 
|- align="center" style="background:#e0ffe0;"
||'''Application<br>Framework'''
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||'''Sugar<br>Platform'''
|colspan="8"|[[Sugar]]
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|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack
  
 
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|- align=center style="background:#e0e0ff;"
 
||'''Operating<br>System'''
 
||'''Operating<br>System'''
||[[Community/Distributions/Fedora|Fedora]]
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|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|...]]
||[[Community/Distributions/Debian|Debian]]
 
||[[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu|Ubuntu]]
 
||Linux, other
 
||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Terminal_Server_Project LTSP]
 
||[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_MacOS_X Mac OSX]]
 
||[[Supported systems/Windows|MS Windows<br>(QEMU)]]
 
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||'''Hardware<br>Platform'''
 
||'''Hardware<br>Platform'''
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The layers in a Sugar system are:
 
The layers in a Sugar system are:
  
* Library Collections (e.g., for the Browse Activity)
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* [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal | Journal]]
* Sugar Activities
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* [[Activities]]
* Sugar
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* [[Sugar Platform Stack]]
* Operating System
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* [[Packaging Team|Operating System]]
 
* Computer Hardware
 
* Computer Hardware
[[Sugar Application Stack (ASCII Text)]]
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[[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.
 
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.
  
== Application Stack Illustration ==
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== System Stack Illustration ==
  
 
[[Image:Sugar Taxonomy.png|centre|450px]]
 
[[Image:Sugar Taxonomy.png|centre|450px]]
 
[[Category:Supported systems]]
 
[[Category:Supported systems]]
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[[Category:Developer]]

Latest revision as of 13:21, 3 July 2012

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

Sugar Taxonomy.png