Red Hat Magazine: Building the XO: Introducing Sugar

"One Laptop Per Child comes closer to being a reality every day--and every day, more people are looking for ways to get involved with the OLPC project. It will still be quite a while before the XO systems are available for broad distribution, but people can see for themselves what the XO is all about by downloading Sugar, the core of the OLPC Human Interface.

"Sugar, for those who aren’t familiar with it, is very different from the desktop environment to which Linux users have become accustomed. The XO was conceived as a tool to allow kids to learn interactively, and Sugar has been designed for that purpose..."

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