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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.
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Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to
 
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===The Sugar stack===
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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.
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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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|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack
  
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The layers in a Sugar system are:
 
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Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:
 
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|colspan=8|Library collections: pre-installed and from the Web or locally created
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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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|colspan=8|''underlying operating system''
 
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|style="width:80px"|Fedora||style="width:80px"|Debian||style="width:80px"|Ubuntu||style="width:80px"|other Linux distributions||style="width:80px"|LTSP||style="width:80px"|Mac OSX||style="width:80px"|MS Windows (QEMU)||style="width:80px"|...
 
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO XO-1]
 
||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO XO-1]
 
||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus ASUS]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC EEE PC]
 
||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus ASUS]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC EEE PC]
 
||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel Intel]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC Classmate]
 
||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel Intel]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC Classmate]
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The layers in a Sugar system are:
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* [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal | Journal]]
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|        From-web  created |      | EToys |  Art  | ... |
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* Computer Hardware
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|          Browse          |      |      |      |    |
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[[Sugar System Stack (ASCII Text)]]
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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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[[Image:Sugar Taxonomy.png|centre|450px]]
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Latest revision as of 14:21, 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
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