As the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project works toward a release this year of its low-cost laptop aimed at children in developing nations, work has continued on the device’s Linux-based operating system and on Sugar, the innovative user interface for the radical new laptop design.

The OLPC’s Sugar interface, which runs on top of a lightweight version of Fedora Linux, was carefully designed for use by children. The Sugar project represents a good example of building new interfaces on a Linux core. Some insight into its human interface design goals are available on the OLPC’s wiki, here.

Jim Rapoza, of our sister publication, eWEEK, has put together a 10-image slide show, offering glimpse of the OLPC Sugar interface. The thumbnail image at the top of this article appears to be Sugar’s main desktop. You can view the entire slide show here.

Source: Desktop Linux

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