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== About Sugar ==
== 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. 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 learners who are connected to each other by [[wikipedia:Wi-Fi|Wi-Fi]] or through a [[olpc:Community Jabber Servers | 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 GNU/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 learners who are connected to each other by [[wikipedia:Wi-Fi|Wi-Fi]] or through a [[olpc:Community Jabber Servers | 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 a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computer_science%29 Kernel] from the [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Project] as its base operating system.
Sugar is developed in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 Python] and runs on a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux GNU/Linux] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computer_science%29 Kernel] from the [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Project] as its base operating system.
For an overview of the components composing a Sugar system see the [[:Sugar Application Stack]].
For an overview of the components composing a Sugar system see the [[:Sugar Application Stack]].