Sugar System Stack: Difference between revisions

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Sugar Application Stack

Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to or indoctrinated into any existing computing environment.

Sugar has Activities rather that programs or applications. It is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user through the Sugar platform. Many Activities, such as Browse, can take advantage of library collections. Some collections are included with the Sugar system; others may be installed from the Web or created locally.

The layers in a Sugar system are:

Library Collections (e.g., for the Browse Activity)
Sugar Activities
Sugar
OS
Hardware

Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:

Library collections: pre-installed and from the Web or locally created
Sugar Activities
Browse	Read	Write	Record	Etoys	TurtleArt	...
Sugar
underlying operating system
Fedora	Debian	Ubuntu	other Linux distributions	LTSP	Mac OSX	MS Windows (QEMU)	...
underlying hardware platform
OLPC XO-1	ASUS EEE PC	Intel Classmate	...

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+Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to
+or indoctrinated into any existing computing environment.
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-Sugar is designed to encourage children that have not been exposed
+Sugar has Activities rather that programs or applications. It is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user through the Sugar platform. Many Activities, such as Browse, can take advantage of library collections. Some collections are included with the Sugar system; others may be installed from the Web or created locally.
-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 layers in a Sugar system are: