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=Sugar Application Stack=
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[[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.
  
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Sugar is designed to encourage children that have not been exposed
 
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or indoctrinated in any exiting computing environment. It has
 
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Activities rather that programs or applications. Sugar is
 
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implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems
 
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and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user in Sugar.
 
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One of the Activities, Browse, has lets the student examine
 
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library collections. Some of these are included with the
 
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Sugar system. Others may be installed from the web or they
 
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can be created locally.
 
  
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The hierarchy of the system is:
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{|align="right" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: solid 1px gray;"
  
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- Library Collections (Browse Activity)
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|- align="center" style="background:#ffc0c0;"
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- Activities
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|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''[[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Journal]]<br>Content'''
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- Sugar
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|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content datastore
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- OS
 
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- Hardware
 
  
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Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:
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|- align="center" style="background:#ffffd0;"
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||'''Sugar<br>[[Activities]]'''
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|colspan="8"| Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | [[Activities|et al...]]
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|- align="center" style="background:#e0ffe0;"
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||'''Sugar<br>Platform'''
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|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack
  
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||'''Operating<br>System'''
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|     Library Collections |       |       |       |     |
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|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|...]]
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| Pre-installed    Locally-|       |      |Turtle |     |
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|- align=center style="background:#ffffff;"
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|       From-web  created |       | EToys | Art  | ... |
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||'''Hardware<br>Platform'''
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|--------------------------| Write |      |      |    |
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO XO-1]
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|         Browse          |      |      |      |    |
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus ASUS]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_PC EEE PC]
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel Intel]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC Classmate]
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|                         Sugar                          |
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 XO-2]
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|colspan="4"|...
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|  XOS  |  Linux  |  MacOSX  |  MSWindows+QEMU  | ... |
 
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|   OLPC XO  |   Asus EEE PC | Intel Classmate | ... |
 
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The layers in a Sugar system are:
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* [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal | Journal]]
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* [[Activities]]
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* [[Sugar Platform Stack]]
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* [[Packaging Team|Operating System]]
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* Computer Hardware
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[[Sugar System Stack (ASCII Text)]]
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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.
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== System Stack Illustration ==
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[[Image:Sugar Taxonomy.png|centre|450px]]
 
[[Category:Supported systems]]
 
[[Category:Supported systems]]
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[[Category:Developer]]

Latest revision as of 14:21, 3 July 2012

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.


Journal
Content 		meta-tagged content datastore
Sugar
Activities 		Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | et al...
Sugar
Platform 		Sugar Platform Stack: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack
Operating
System 		Fedora | Debian | Ubuntu | Linux, other | LTSP | Mac OSX | MS Windows (emulation) | ...
Hardware
Platform 		OLPC
XO-1 		ASUS
EEE PC 		Intel
Classmate 		OLPC
XO-2 		...

The layers in a Sugar system are:

Sugar System Stack (ASCII Text)

Sugar Labs has borrowed names from carbohydrate chemistry, which includes sugar, to personalize and help distinguish pieces of Sugar software. See Taxonomy and On the Naming of Sugar for background.

System Stack Illustration

Sugar Taxonomy.png
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