Difference between revisions of "Sugar System Stack"

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The layers in a Sugar system are:
 
The layers in a Sugar system are:
  
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* Computer Hardware

Revision as of 23:59, 30 May 2009


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 ("Sugarized applications") are accessed by the user in the Sugar platform, integrate into a single Journal for storing, and are often designed with peer collaboration as a primary feature.

Sugar Application Stack

Journal
Content
meta-tagged content datastore
Sugar
Activities
Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | et al...
Application
Framework
Sugar
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 Application 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.

Application Stack Illustration

Sugar Taxonomy.png