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=Sugar Application Stack=
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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.
  
Sugar is designed to encourage children that have not been exposed
 
or indoctrinated in any exiting computing environment. It has
 
Activities rather that programs or applications. Sugar is
 
implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems
 
and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user in Sugar.
 
One of the Activities, Browse, has lets the student examine
 
library collections. Some of these are included with the
 
Sugar system. Others may be installed from the web or they
 
can be created locally.
 
  
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{|align="right" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: solid 1px gray;"
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|- align="center" style="background:#ffc0c0;"
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|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''[[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Journal]]<br>Content'''
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|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content datastore
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|- align="center" style="background:#ffffd0;"
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||'''Sugar<br>[[Activities]]'''
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|colspan="8"| Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | [[Activities|et al...]]
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|- align="center" style="background:#e0ffe0;"
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||'''Sugar<br>Platform'''
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|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack
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|- align=center style="background:#e0e0ff;"
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||'''Operating<br>System'''
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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|...]]
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|- align=center style="background:#ffffff;"
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||'''Hardware<br>Platform'''
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO XO-1]
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus ASUS]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC EEE PC]
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel Intel]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC Classmate]
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 XO-2]
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|colspan="4"|...
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The layers in a Sugar system are:
 
The layers in a Sugar system are:
  
- Library Collections (Browse Activity)
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* [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal | Journal]]
- Activities
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* [[Activities]]
- Sugar
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* [[Sugar Platform Stack]]
- OS
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* [[Packaging Team|Operating System]]
- Hardware
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* Computer Hardware
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[[Sugar System Stack (ASCII Text)]]
  
Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:
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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.
  
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== System Stack Illustration ==
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|      Library Collections |      |      |      |    |
 
| Pre-installed    Locally-|      |      |Turtle |    |
 
|        From-web  created |      | EToys |  Art  | ... |
 
|--------------------------| Write |      |      |    |
 
|          Browse          |      |      |      |    |
 
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|                        Sugar                          |
 
----------------------------------------------------------
 
|  XOS  |  Linux  |  MacOSX  |  MSWindows+QEMU  | ... |
 
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|  OLPC XO  |  Asus EEE PC  |  Intel Classmate  | ... |
 
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[[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