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This page is monitored by the OLPC team.
For the category Sugar, see Category:Sugar.
About
Sugar is the core of the OLPC Environment. Its goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.
Download
Sugar is currently under heavy development, and is meant to be used by developers. There are no binary packages yet available. The easiest way to build Sugar from sources is to use sugar-jhbuild.
Distribution specific instructions that will help you to install pre-requisite binary packages:
Source repositories
Hacking
Marco wrote a quick tutorial on how to make your own Sugar Activity. Dan has some docs up on the Presence Service DBus API. There is also a page that describes Activity Bundles.
Milestones
- Sugar demo 3 - in progress
Design Reviews
- Sugar design review 3 - in progress
Achitecture Reviews
- Sugar architecture review 1 - in progress
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.