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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 ==
 
 
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]].
 
 
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==Getting Sugar==
 
===Sugar on a Stick===
 
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]].
 
 
For installing Sugar on your computer or a flash drive, see [[Downloads]].
 
 
For more technical information, please see the [[Supported systems]] (is marked out of date) page for a list of the different ways that Sugar may be run on a computer.
 
===Linux Distributions supporting Sugar===
 
A list here [[Community/Distributions]]
 
===Release notes===
 
 
Release notes for '''Sugar {{Current Stable Release}}''' are available [[{{Current Stable Release}}/Notes|here]].
 
 
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===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?
 
 
[[Wiki_Team/Guide/Wiki_Structure]] "Our challenge is to organize the wiki so that communities can find the information they need."
 
 
The Sugar Lab '''Teams''' are listed on the wiki sidebar.
 
 
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[[Category:Help]]
 
[[Category:HowTo]]
 
[[Category:Getting started]]
 

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