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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 Application Stack==
 
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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 layers in a Sugar system are:
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|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''[[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Journal]]<br>Content'''
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|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content datastore
  
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* Library Collections (e.g., for the Browse Activity)
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* Sugar Activities
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* Sugar
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|colspan="8"| Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | [[Activities|et al...]]
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* OS
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* Hardware
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|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack
  
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Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:
 
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|colspan=8|Library collections: pre-installed and from the Web or locally created
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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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|colspan=8|'''Sugar Activities'''
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||Browse||Read||Write||Record||Etoys||TurtleArt||colspan=2|...
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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO XO-1]
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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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||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpc OLPC]<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 XO-2]
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|style="width:80px"|Fedora||style="width:80px"|Debian||style="width:80px"|Ubuntu||style="width:80px"|other Linux distributions||style="width:80px"|LTSP||style="width:80px"|Mac OSX||style="width:80px"|MS Windows (QEMU)||style="width:80px"|...
 
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|colspan=8|''underlying hardware platform''
 
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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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| Pre-installed    Locally-|      |      |Turtle |    |
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|        From-web  created |      | EToys |  Art  | ... |
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* [[Packaging Team|Operating System]]
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* Computer Hardware
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|          Browse          |      |      |      |    |
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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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| XOS  |  Linux  |  MacOSX  |  MSWindows+QEMU  | ... |
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== System Stack Illustration ==
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|  OLPC XO  |  Asus EEE PC  |  Intel Classmate  | ... |
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[[Image:Sugar Taxonomy.png|centre|450px]]
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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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