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.
• Sugar source

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

Sugar is able to run on a PS3. It can be run using the qemu emulator. Here are some directions for one way of doing this:

1. Install ydl linux for PS3

2. Log on to ydl as root user

3. Install yum (helps install other linux software)

4. Download qemu

5. Download therepos here

6. Unzip therepos.zip

7. Access yum folder (yum.repos.d)

8. Copy unzipped files to yum.repos.d

9. Follow the linux emulation instructions