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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