Getting Started

About Sugar

Sugar is a different desktop environment to what is normally used in Microsoft Windows, Apple's OS X or other GNU/Linux operating systems. It is conceived as a tool to allow kids to learn interactively. One of the first things 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 learners who are connected to each other by Wi-Fi 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 a GNU/Linux Kernel, originally from the Fedora Project, and now from a variety of GNU/Linux distributions.

For an overview of the components composing a Sugar system see the Sugar Application Stack.

Getting Sugar

See Downloads.

For more technical information, please see the Supported systems page for a list of the different ways that Sugar may be run on a computer.

Getting started

The Sugar Learners' manual

available as: HTML or .pdf 128 pages, 8.3 MBytes (for saving or printing).

Tutorials

• Ideas for How to present Sugar.
• Tech Coordinator Guide and other training materials prepared by Teaching Matters(R) for OLPC in NYC
• Turtle Art tutorials by Tony Forster and Mokurai.
• Tutorials.iso - An off-line collection of .pdf copies of some of the tutorials on this wiki.

Annotated screenshot guides to Sugar

Click on the following links to go to wiki pages with annotated screenshots covering these topics.

Chatting with the Chat Activity

• Communicate with others on Sugar.
• A good example of collaboration on a shared Activity.

Chatting with the IRC Activity

• Communicate with developers and others with IRC.

Send file to friend

• Note: Requires a special version of Sugar.
• A nice way to sent a file to a friend.

Backup & restore Journal

• Backup & restore to an attached hard drive or USB device.
• Also works to save & retrieve individual files from the Sugar Journal that have been copied to a USB device.

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Charlando con la Actividad Chat

• Comunicarse con los demás de Azúcar.
• Un buen ejemplo de la colaboración en una actividad compartida.

Charlando con la Actividad IRC

• Comunicarse con los desarrolladores y otras personas con IRC.

Copia con un simple arrastrar y soltar

• Fotos de exportación
• Importación / install <activity> archivo. XO

Installation

Install SoaS in VirtualBox

Old Anaconda up to Fedora 17

Installing and using liveusb-creator in Sugar

Make a bootable, persistent, Live USB device from a Fedora .iso file in SoaS.

* Windows: Create a SoaS v7 Live USB

Liveusb-creator in Microsoft Windows

Install SoaS in VMware Player

Old Anaconda up to Fedora 17

* Windows: Run SoaS with VMware Player

Install VMware Player in Microsoft Windows and run SoaS.

Fedora^®
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newUI Anaconda

New version of the installer for Fedora 18

Testing Dextrose in VirtualBox

VirtualBox simulation of XO-1 software

Build_A_Fedora_Custom_Live_CD/DVD_Remix

• Build a Live CD/DVD .iso file with a customized kickstart file and livecd-tools in Fedora

How to Import a VirtualBox Appliance

• with links to Virtual Appliances to download.

Cómo importar un aparato de VirtualBox

• traducciones a través de http://translate.google.com/#auto%7Ces%7C Por favor, haga las correcciones por errores en la wiki.

Install from a booted Live CD/USB with liveinst

• The Fedora-16-Live-SoaS.iso file is a 443 MB download.
• Installs to a 4 GB USB stick or VirtualBox 4 GB hard drive. (The procedure is adaptable for installation to a regular hard drive.)

Instalar desde una calzada Live CD/USB con liveinst

• El archivo Fedora-16-en vivo-SoaS.iso es una descarga de 443 MB.

Anotado de fotografías en pantalla de una instalación

• Se instala a 4 GB de memoria USB o VirtualBox 4 GB de disco duro. (El procedimiento es adaptable para la instalación de un disco duro normal.)

Netinstall of Fedora with the Sugar Desktop Environment

• Note: Requires a high speed Internet connection!
• Install to a hard disk or USB device.

Install sugar-desktop in Fedora with anaconda-19.6

• Install of sugar 0.98.2 in VirtualBox

Testing of Anaconda anaconda-19.6-boot.iso

Videos

• Using the Journal
• Using View Source
• Turtle Art basics
• Turtle Art Portfolio basics
• XO Editor basics
• Waveplace Etoys video tutorials

More videos

• Creating a customized Memory game
• Hot-Cold game written in Turtle Art
• Installing a XO bundle in Sugar
• Installing InfoSlicer from Sugar Labs git repo
• Playing with OOo4Kids in Sugar
• Discovering the SocialCalc activity
• Discovering the Physics activity
• Introduction to Python in Sugar
• Overview of Sugar activity Read Etext
• Overview of the French Helpfr (Aide) activity for Sugar
• Turtle Art Continent Game
• Turtle Art State Game
• Gardner School Game
• Using the Physics Activity
• How to boot Sugar on a netbook
• Read Etexts: The Movie
• Reading With The Sugar Desktop
• Sugar on the OLPC in NZ

Connecting to the Internet

Connecting to the Internet is something that somewhat falls between the cracks of Sugar and the computer it's running on.

On the XO laptop, there are three ways to connect to the Internet:

• Wireless access point (Wi-Fi hotspot);
• “School Server” mesh network; or
• “simple” mesh network, which lets you collaborate directly with other XOs running Sugar.

From a conventional laptop running Sugar, connecting through an access point works. (Mesh support is becoming available on more machines.) Depending upon which Jabber server you are connected to, you'll see different collections of "neighbors" in the Neighborhood View.

Read the Connecting to the Internet page for detailed instructions.

Release notes

• Release notes for Sugar 0.121 are available here.

See Development Team Release Notes for other releases.

Other resources

Other resources are listed on the Deployment Team/Resources page.