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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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|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''[[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Journal]]<br>Content'''
|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content datastore

|- align="center" style="background:#ffffd0;"
||'''Sugar<br>[[Activities]]'''
|colspan="8"| Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | [[Activities|et al...]]
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||'''Sugar<br>Platform'''
|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack

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||'''Operating<br>System'''
|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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||'''Hardware<br>Platform'''
||[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/Intel Intel]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC Classmate]
||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 XO-2]
|colspan="4"|...

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The layers in a Sugar system are:

* [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal | Journal]]
* [[Activities]]
* [[Sugar Platform Stack]]
* [[Packaging Team|Operating System]]
* Computer Hardware
[[Sugar System Stack (ASCII Text)]]

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.

== System Stack Illustration ==

[[Image:Sugar Taxonomy.png|centre|450px]]
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