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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.

Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to

===The Sugar stack===

Sugar is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. Sugar Activities ("Sugarized applications") are accessed by the user from the Sugar platform. Many Activities, such as Browse, take advantage of library collections. Some collections are included with Sugar; others may be installed from the Web or created locally.  

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|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''Library<br>Collections'''

|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|'''[[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Journal]]<br>Content'''

|style="background:#ffc0c0;"|[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library pre-installed], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library_grid online],<br>[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library_bundles locally created]

|colspan="8"|meta-tagged content datastore

|rowspan="2"|[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read Read]

|rowspan="2" colspan="2"|[[Activities | et al.]]

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||'''Sugar<br>Activities'''

||'''Sugar<br>[[Activities]]'''

||[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse Browse]

|colspan="8"| Browse | Chat | Read | Write | Record | EToys | Turtle Art | Terminal | [[Activities|et al...]]

 

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|- align="center" style="background:#e0ffe0;"

||'''Application<br>Framework'''

||'''Sugar<br>Platform'''

|colspan="8"|[[Sugar]]

|colspan="8"|[[Sugar Platform Stack]]: Sugar Framework and Sugar Software Stack

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||'''Operating<br>System'''

||'''Operating<br>System'''

||[[Community/Distributions/Fedora|Fedora]]

|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|...]]

||[[Community/Distributions/Debian|Debian]]

||[[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu|Ubuntu]]

||Linux, other

||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Terminal_Server_Project LTSP]

||[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_MacOS_X Mac OSX]]

||[[Supported systems/Windows|MS Windows<br>(QEMU)]]

||...

 

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||'''Hardware<br>Platform'''

||'''Hardware<br>Platform'''

The layers in a Sugar system are:

The layers in a Sugar system are:

* Library Collections (e.g., for the Browse Activity)

* [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal | Journal]]

* Sugar Activities

* [[Activities]]

* Sugar

* [[Sugar Platform Stack]]

* Operating System

* [[Packaging Team|Operating System]]

* Computer Hardware

* Computer Hardware

[[Sugar Application Stack (ASCII Text)]]

[[Sugar System Stack (ASCII Text)]]

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.

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.

== Application Stack Illustration ==

== System Stack Illustration ==

[[Image:Sugar Taxonomy.png|centre|450px]]

[[Image:Sugar Taxonomy.png|centre|450px]]

[[Category:Supported systems]]

[[Category:Supported systems]]