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== About Sugar ==

Sugar is a different desktop environment to what is normally used in Microsoft Windows, Apple's OS X or other Linux operating systems. It is conceived as a tool to allow kids to learn interactively. ~~The~~ first ~~thing~~ 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 users who are connected to each other by ~~Wifi~~ or through a [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community#Jabber_Networks Jabber network]. Sugar developers are encouraged to write activities with collaborative elements that are automatically enabled.

Sugar is a different desktop environment to what is normally used in Microsoft Windows, Apple's OS X or other 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|collaboration]] between users who are connected to each other by [[wikipedia:Wi-Fi|Wi-Fi]] or through a [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community#Jabber_Networks Jabber network]. Sugar developers are encouraged to write activities with collaborative elements that are automatically enabled.

Sugar is developed in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 Python] and runs on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computer_science%29 Kernel] 2.6.22 and the [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora 9] base environment.

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

*Wireless access point (~~WiFi~~ hotspot);

*Wireless access point (Wi-Fi hotspot);

*“School Server” mesh network; or

*“simple” mesh network, which lets you collaborate directly with other XOs running Sugar.

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 == About Sugar ==
-Sugar is a different desktop environment to what is normally used in Microsoft Windows, Apple's OS X or other Linux operating systems. It is conceived as a tool to allow kids to learn interactively. The first thing 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 users who are connected to each other by Wifi or through a [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community#Jabber_Networks Jabber network]. Sugar developers are encouraged to write activities with collaborative elements that are automatically enabled.
+Sugar is a different desktop environment to what is normally used in Microsoft Windows, Apple's OS X or other 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&mdash;it’s the other kids in the “neighborhood.” Programs and applications are called Activities, many of which allow for [[Collaboration|collaboration]] between users who are connected to each other by [[wikipedia:Wi-Fi|Wi-Fi]] or through a [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community#Jabber_Networks Jabber network]. Sugar developers are encouraged to write activities with collaborative elements that are automatically enabled.
 Sugar is developed in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 Python] and runs on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computer_science%29 Kernel] 2.6.22 and the [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora 9] base environment.
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 On the XO laptop, there are three ways to connect to the Internet:
-*Wireless access point (WiFi hotspot);
+*Wireless access point (Wi-Fi hotspot);
 *“School Server” mesh network; or
 *“simple” mesh network, which lets you collaborate directly with other XOs running Sugar.