Sugar

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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.

Sugar running on Fedora Core

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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:

• Fedora Core 5
• Ubuntu

Source repositories

• Sugar source repository
• Artwork source repository

Milestones

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

Demo 2 - GUADEC, June 24th 2006

• Sugar demo 3 - in progress

Design Reviews

Design Review 2 - Notes & Mockups

• 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.