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| {{Under construction| --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 04:51, 19 November 2011 (EST) Hope to finish early December.}}
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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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| ===Sugar on a Stick===
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| [[Sugar on a Stick]] is the introductory page.
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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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| Do not be discouraged by this comment from building Sugar on a Stick. It was the first bootable flash drive I made and worked at the second attempt.
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| '''Hardware requirements'''
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| You will need to ensure the computer you plan to use is capable of booting from USB.
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| From http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora we see these minimum requirements for the current distribution, Fedora 16.
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| :A 400MHz or faster processor
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| :At least 768 MB memory (RAM), 1 GB recommended for best performance.
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| The minimum size of your USB flash drive is 2GB.
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| For installing Sugar on a flash drive, see [[Downloads]].
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| :Alternate: Boot from burned CD and enter "liveinst" in root terminal of sugar
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| ::This starts the fedora anaconda installer and you can select your 4 GB or larger USB; or your Hard Disk; as the media to install to.
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| ::(this is a real installation) not a compressed file system with a persistence file)
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| ===Linux Distributions supporting Sugar===
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| A list here
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| :[[Community/Distributions]] ALL
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| :[[Sugar_Creation_Kit#Community_Distributions]] With Good Support
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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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| [[Wiki_Team/Guide/Wiki_Structure]] "Our challenge is to organize the wiki so that communities can find the information they need."
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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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