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-{{Under construction| --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 04:51, 19 November 2011 (EST) Hope to finish early December.}}
-'''[[User:Inkyfingers/Getting Started(1)|Next Page - Temporary link]]'''
-== mid construction note ==
-This page is what remains of [[Getting Started]] after the creation of proposed new pages, currently called [[User:Inkyfingers/Getting Started(1)]], and [[User:Inkyfingers/Getting Started_Presentation]]
-To resolve:
-Newcomers, ''getting started'' but before install.
-Possibly there is already some duplication in this area?
-Should the wiki provide some improved orientation for this group?
-: From here, or how?
-:: Link to Sugar Creation Kit?
-== About Sugar ==
-Sugar is a desktop environment that is an alternative to the ones typically used in Microsoft Windows, Apple's OS X or other GNU/Linux operating systems. It is conceived as a platform upon which children learn with Sugar [[Activities]]. The platform provides mechanisms for [[Collaboration|collaboration]], [[Activities/Portfolio|reflection]], and [[View Source|exploration]]. Sugar Activities cover a broad range of applications: browsing, drawing, composing, writing, programming, etc.
-The Sugar desktop has multiple full-screen views: a Home view from which Activities are launched; a Neighborhood view where learners can connect to each other through a [[olpc:Community Jabber Servers | Jabber network]]; a Journal view, which can be used as a ''lab notebook''; and the Activity view, where Sugar Activities are run.
-Sugar Activities have no Save menu: everything is saved automatically. While the interface uses very little text, additional information is revealed when the user hovers over icons.
-Sugar is Free Software. It is developed in [[wikipedia:Python_%28programming_language%29|Python]] and runs on a [[wikipedia:Linux|GNU/Linux]] [[wikipedia:Kernel_%28computer_science%29|Kernel]], originally from the [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Project], and now from a [[Supported systems|variety]] of GNU/Linux distributions.
-For an overview of the components composing a Sugar system see the [[Sugar System Stack]].
-==Getting Sugar==
-For installing Sugar on your computer or a flash drive, see [[Downloads]]. For purchase information for Sugar pre-installed on a bootable USB flash drive, see [[Sugar on a Stick]].
-For more technical information, please see the [[Supported systems]] page for a list of the different ways that Sugar may be run on a computer.
-===Release notes===
-Release notes for '''Sugar {{Current Stable Release}}''' are available [[{{Current Stable Release}}/Notes|here]].
-{{Template:Platform Cycle Linkbar}}
-===Other resources===
- What is required here is a 3 line paragraph helping to orientate a new user to the wiki,
- and link to the areas he/she might most need.
- Other resources are listed on the [[Deployment Team/Resources]] page.
- Is this the most useful link?
-The Sugar Lab '''Teams''' are listed on the wiki sidebar.
-'''[[User:Inkyfingers/Getting Started(1)|Next Page - Temporary link]]'''
-[[Category:Help]]
-[[Category:HowTo]]
-[[Category:Getting started]]

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