Sugar

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For the category Sugar, see Category:Sugar.

About

Sugar is the core of the OLPC Environment. It's goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.

Sugar running on Fedora Core

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Sugar is currently under heavy development.

Build from sources

Sugar is composed of a few modules, and depends on xulrunner, which is not yet packaged by distributions. The easier way to build it from sources is to use jhbuild,

• Check out sugar-jhbuild

git clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild

• Build sugar and his dependecies

cd sugar-jhbuild
./sugar-jhbuild

• Run sugar

sugar-jhbuild run

Note that sugar-jhbuild is still in early development. In particular, dependencies detection will be improved. It needs a lot of testing, so give it a try and report issues!

Source repositories

• Sugar source repository
• Artwork source repository

Distribution specific

• Suse instructions can be found at Sugar Setup on SUSE
• Using sugar-jhbuild on Ubuntu Linux

Milestones

Demo 1 - Seven Country Task Force Meeting, May 23rd 2006

Demo 2 - GUADEC, June 24th 2006

Design Reviews

Design Review 2 - Notes & Mockups

External Links

• Screenshots here: http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2006/05/001414.php
• Some notes on Sugar: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=200
• Marc Eisenstadt's comments on the environment with some links to other similar projects.
• UI mockups for the OLPC are found here.