Difference between revisions of "Sugar System Stack"

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Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to
 
Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to
 
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Sugar has Activities rather that programs or applications. It is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user through the Sugar platform. Many Activities, such as Browse, can take advantage of library collections. Some collections are included with the Sugar system; others may be installed from the Web or created locally.  
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Sugar is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. Sugar Activities ("Sugar-enhanced applications") are accessed by the user from the Sugar platform. Many Activities, such as Browse, take advantage of library collections. Some collections are included with Sugar; others may be installed from the Web or created locally.  
  
 
The layers in a Sugar system are:
 
The layers in a Sugar system are:
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* Sugar Activities
 
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* Sugar
* OS
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* Operating System
* Hardware
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Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:
 
Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:

Revision as of 18:15, 12 November 2008


Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to or indoctrinated into any existing computing environment.


The Sugar stack

Sugar is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. Sugar Activities ("Sugar-enhanced applications") are accessed by the user from the Sugar platform. Many Activities, such as Browse, take advantage of library collections. Some collections are included with Sugar; others may be installed from the Web or created locally.

The layers in a Sugar system are:

  • Library Collections (e.g., for the Browse Activity)
  • Sugar Activities
  • Sugar
  • Operating System
  • Computer Hardware

Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:

Library collections: pre-installed and from the Web or locally created
Sugar Activities
Browse Read Write Record Etoys TurtleArt ...
Sugar
underlying operating system
Fedora Debian Ubuntu other Linux distributions LTSP Mac OSX MS Windows (QEMU) ...
underlying hardware platform
OLPC XO-1 ASUS EEE PC Intel Classmate ...