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| {{Under construction| --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 04:51, 19 November 2011 (EST) Hope to finish early December.}}
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| |width=50% align=center bgcolor=#C3D9FF|'''[[User:inkyfingers/Getting_Started(0)|Getting Started]]'''
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| == mid construction note ==
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| 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]]
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| To resolve:
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| Newcomers, ''getting started'' but before install.
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| Possibly there is already some duplication in this area?
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| Should the wiki provide some improved orientation for this group?
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| : From here, or how?
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| :: Link to Sugar Creation Kit?
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| == About Sugar ==
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| For an overview of the components composing a Sugar system see the [[Sugar System Stack]].
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| ==Getting Sugar==
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| If this is going to be your first attempt at running sugar, you could take the advice ''buy rather than build''. For purchase information for Sugar pre-installed on a bootable USB flash drive, see [[Sugar Creation Kit#Commercial source of SoaS-loaded media]].
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| For installing Sugar on your computer or a flash drive, see [[Downloads]].
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| 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.
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| ===Release notes===
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| Release notes for '''Sugar {{Current Stable Release}}''' are available [[{{Current Stable Release}}/Notes|here]].
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| ===Other resources===
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| What is required here is a 3 line paragraph helping to orientate a new user to the wiki,
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| and link to the areas he/she might most need.
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| Other resources are listed on the [[Deployment Team/Resources]] page.
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| Is this the most useful link?
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| The Sugar Lab '''Teams''' are listed on the wiki sidebar.
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| [[Category:Help]]
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| [[Category:HowTo]]
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| [[Category:Getting started]]
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