Sugar

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Sugar is the core of the OLPC Human Interface. Its goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.

Sugar running on Fedora

Getting started

• Installing Sugar (on various platforms)
• Sugar Instructions, booting and getting started with Sugar

Develop

• Building the XO: Introducing Sugar - Red Hat Magazine 2007-02-23
• Build from sources, and get started.
• Read the human interaction guidelines
• Get an overview of the architecture
• Write your own activity
• Check out the code snippets library
• Understanding sugar code organization.
• See a list of Sugar activities and specifications.

Contribute

• Subscribe to the mailing list (here are its archives)
• Join the irc channel
• Give sugar some love!
• Test and report issues

Get Sugar

Get Sugar~ try Sugar out, via emulator or Live CD, on your favorite machines. Take a picture of your desktop or laptop running sugar, and leave a thumbnail and note below about what build you used and how it worked. We have new LiveCD images coming out this week.

= On the PS3

There are rumors that Sugar has been seen running on a PS3 and other consoles.