Re: role of olpc/XO/sugar in debian-edu
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:06:36PM +0200, gerhard.oettl.ml@ogersoft.at wrote:
>Jonas Smedegaard schrieb:
>> The software developed to run on XOs is called Sugar. The
>> development of sugar initially happened under the umbrella of OLPC,
>> but is now branched off as its own independent organisation,
>> Sugarlabs: http://sugarlabs.org/
>
>Is sugar not "only" the desktop?
Sugar is a desktop environment, yes. Underneeth it is a set of
Python-centric libraries, below that DBus and GTK+, then X11 and at the
bottom Linux and a bunch of more general tools and libraries.
So Sugar is not a distribution. But neither is XO or OLPC. OLPC (the
organisation) do ship a distribution targeted specifically for XOs which
contains sugar and everything it needs to run. But that distribution is
*not* what Skolelinux intend to use (which I believe was what you
originally talked about). Skolelinux intend to become a Debian Pure
Blend, and as such use only Debian components, which specifically means
Sugar packaged for Debian, i.e. using Debian packaged underlying parts.
Not really sure why you ask. Hope the answer was of some use.
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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