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Sugar (GUI)

Sugar
Sugar(Software) Logo.png
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The Sugar "Home view" (v0.82)
Developer(s) Sugar Labs
Initial release May 2006; 10 years ago (2006-05)
Stable release
0.110 (October 7, 2016; 4 months ago (2016-10-07))
Development status Active
Written in Python,PyGTK, GTK+
Operating system Linux
Available in 25 languages
Type Desktop environment
License GNU General Public License
Alexa rank 647,710
Website sugarlabs.org

Sugar is a free and open source computer desktop environment designed for interactive learning by children. Copyright by SugarLabs. Developed as part of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, Sugar was the default interface on OLPC XO-1 laptop computers. The OLPC XO-1.5 and later provided the option of either the Gnome or Sugar interfaces.

Sugar is available as a Live CD, as Live USB, a package installable through several Linux distributions. It can run in a Linux virtual machine under Windows and Mac OS.

Unlike most other desktop environments, Sugar does not use the "desktop", "folder" and "window" metaphors. Instead, Sugar's default full-screen activities require users to focus on only one program at a time. Sugar implements a journal which automatically saves the user's running program session and allows them to later use an interface to pull up their past works by date, activity used, or file type.

Sugar is an operating system which reinvents the use of computers for education in our society. Collaboration, reflection and discovery are incorporated straightforwardly into the user interface. Sugar encourages “studio thinking” and “reflective practice”. Through Sugar’s clarity of environment, young learners and educators have the choice to utilize PCs in all alone terms. Students can reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into intense learning exercises. Sugar’s concentration on sharing, criticism, and investigation is grounded in the culture of free software.


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