Sugar (desktop environment)

Sugar is a <a href="/facts/Free_and_open-source/1cHtjLCB">free and open-source</a> <a href="/facts/Desktop_environment/VXBpMWnG">desktop environment</a> designed for <a href="/facts/Interactive_learning/652o6DMN">interactive learning</a> by children. It was developed by <a href="/facts/SugarLabs/agz2InSc">SugarLabs</a>. Developed as part of the <a href="/facts/One_Laptop_per_Child/5YMMxho2">One Laptop per Child</a> (OLPC) project, Sugar was the default interface on <a href="/facts/OLPC_XO-1/fD7rnkbb">OLPC XO-1</a> laptop computers. The OLPC XO-1.5 and later provided the option of either the <a href="/facts/Gnome_(desktop_environment)/EFMNBmpR">Gnome</a> or Sugar interfaces.
Sugar is available as a <a href="/facts/Live_CD/J4bpHUs1">Live CD</a>, as <a href="/facts/Live_USB/QNvT9R3D">Live USB</a>, and a package installable through several <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a> distributions.
Unlike most other desktop environments, Sugar does not use the "<a href="/facts/Desktop_metaphor/kWQQNlxu">desktop</a>", "<a href="/facts/Folder_(computing)/VLtLcEXY">folder</a>" and "<a href="/facts/Window_(computing)/g39X0vV3">window</a>" 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, an activity used, or file type.

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