Red Hat has published a howto article on ways that you can try out Sugar, the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) interface. It includes instructions on building it on your Linux distro, running an image in an emulator like qemu or using a LiveCD.

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. The first thing that a child sees, therefore, is not a hard disk or a trash can — it’s the other kids in the “neighborhood”. Sugar developers are encouraged to write activities with collaborative elements that are enabled by default. The Human Interface Guidelines discuss the Sugar philosophy in some detail, but really, there’s no substitute for experiencing Sugar directly.

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