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 | ... | ||||