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=Sugar ~~Application Stack=~~

[[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.

~~Sugar is designed to encourage children that have not been exposed~~

~~or indoctrinated in any exiting computing environment. It has~~

~~Activities rather that programs or applications. Sugar is~~

~~implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems~~

~~and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user in Sugar.~~

~~One of the Activities, Browse, has lets the student examine~~

~~library collections. Some of these are included with the~~

~~Sugar system. Others may be installed from the web or they~~

~~can be created locally.~~

~~The hierarchy of the system is~~:

{|align="right" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: solid 1px gray;"

- ~~Library Collections (Browse Activity)~~

|- align="center" style="background:#ffc0c0;"

~~- Activities~~

|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''[[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Journal]] Content'''

~~- Sugar~~

|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content datastore

~~- OS~~

- ~~Hardware~~

~~Graphical view of the~~ Sugar ~~Application~~ Stack:

|- align="center" style="background:#ffffd0;"

||'''Sugar [[Activities]]'''

|- align="center" style="background:#e0ffe0;"

||'''Sugar Platform'''

|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack

~~<pre>~~

|- align=center style="background:#e0e0ff;"

~~---------------------------------------------------------~~-

||'''Operating System'''

|- align=center style="background:#ffffff;"

| ~~From-web created~~ | | ~~EToys~~ | ~~Art~~ | ... |

||'''Hardware Platform'''

|-~~-------------------------| Write | | | |~~

||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC] [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO XO-1]

| ~~Browse | | | |~~ |

||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus ASUS] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC EEE PC]

~~----------------------------------------------------------~~

||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel Intel] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC Classmate]

| ~~Sugar |~~

||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC] [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 XO-2]

~~----------------------------------------------------------~~

|colspan="4"|...

~~| XOS | Linux | MacOSX | MSWindows+QEMU~~ | ... |

~~---------------------------------------------------------~~-

~~--------------------------------------------------------~~--

~~</pre>~~

|}

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]]

[[Category:Supported systems]]

[[Category:Developer]]

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-=Sugar Application Stack=
+[[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.
-Sugar is designed to encourage children that have not been exposed
-or indoctrinated in any exiting computing environment. It has
-Activities rather that programs or applications. Sugar is
-implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems
-and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user in Sugar.
-One of the Activities, Browse, has lets the student examine
-library collections. Some of these are included with the
-Sugar system. Others may be installed from the web or they
-can be created locally.
-The hierarchy of the system is:
+{|align="right" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: solid 1px gray;"
- - Library Collections (Browse Activity)
+|- align="center" style="background:#ffc0c0;"
- - Activities
+|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''[[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Journal]]<br>Content'''
- - Sugar
+|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content datastore
- - OS
- - Hardware
-Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:
+|- align="center" style="background:#ffffd0;"
+||'''Sugar<br>[[Activities]]'''
+|colspan="8"| Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | [[Activities|et al...]]
+|- align="center" style="background:#e0ffe0;"
+||'''Sugar<br>Platform'''
+|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack
-<pre>
+|- align=center style="background:#e0e0ff;"
-----------------------------------------------------------
+||'''Operating<br>System'''
-|      Library Collections |       |       |       |     |
+|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|...]]
-| Pre-installed    Locally-|       |       |Turtle |     |
+|- align=center style="background:#ffffff;"
-|        From-web  created |       | EToys |  Art  | ... |
+||'''Hardware<br>Platform'''
-|--------------------------| Write |       |       |     |
+||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO XO-1]
-|          Browse          |       |       |       |     |
+||[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]
-|                         Sugar                          |
+||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 XO-2]
-----------------------------------------------------------
+|colspan="4"|...
-|  XOS   |   Linux  |   MacOSX  |  MSWindows+QEMU  | ... |
-----------------------------------------------------------
-|   OLPC XO   |   Asus EEE PC  |  Intel Classmate  | ... |
-----------------------------------------------------------
-</pre>
+|}
+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]]
 [[Category:Supported systems]]
+[[Category:Developer]]