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This will be the getting started section.
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== About Sugar ==
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Sugar is a different desktop environment to what is normally used in Windows, OS X or other Linux distributions. It is conceived as a tool to allow kids to learn interactively. The first thing that a child sees, therefore, is not a hard disk or a trash can — it’s the other kids in the “neighborhood.” Programs and Applications are called Activities, many of which allow for collaboration between users who are connected to each other by Wifi or through a Jabber network. Sugar developers are encouraged to write activities with collaborative elements that are automatically enabled.
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Sugar is developed in Python and runs on Linux Kernel 2.6.22 and the [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora 7] base environment.  
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We will provide information to help new users run Sugar and take advantage of its tools and functionality, written in plain English.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 10:26, 22 May 2008

About Sugar

Sugar is a different desktop environment to what is normally used in Windows, OS X or other Linux distributions. It is conceived as a tool to allow kids to learn interactively. The first thing that a child sees, therefore, is not a hard disk or a trash can — it’s the other kids in the “neighborhood.” Programs and Applications are called Activities, many of which allow for collaboration between users who are connected to each other by Wifi or through a Jabber network. Sugar developers are encouraged to write activities with collaborative elements that are automatically enabled.

Sugar is developed in Python and runs on Linux Kernel 2.6.22 and the Fedora 7 base environment.