[Sugar-devel] Sugar Architecture Documentation

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:22, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 20:35, Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 19:58, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:10 AM,  <tbadsha at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi David,
>>>>
>>>> As I am in between jobs, I do some volunteer work with the local OLPC
>>>> office, helping them in technical and regulatory matters.  However, my
>>>> primary interest is software and have also been working with Walter on a
>>>> proposal to globalize Sugar development.
>>>>
>>>> I stay in touch with Sugar activities through the Wiki and have been trying
>>>> to get a handle on the articecture.  Basically, how it complements/meshes
>>>> with LINUX.  Came across a good article on Bitfrost and one written by you
>>>> on APIDOX.  From my experience I know that this learning process is
>>>> iterative and a lot comes with practical involvement but I would still
>>>> appreciate if you can point me to some documents that give me an overview of
>>>> the architecture.
>>
>> Our architecture overview is
>> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Architecture - quite sparse
>> but feel free to ask specific questions on this list and we can
>> provide the details.
>
> Just wanted to note that one of the reasons for that page to be so
> scarce on details is that we are following pretty closely the
> architecture of other X11 desktop environments like GNOME, KDE, etc,
> so though we could extend quite deeply on several aspects, most of it
> wouldn't be Sugar specific.
>
> And yeah, please ask any questions you have and we'll fill those
> wholes in the wiki.

One example:

http://linuxdevices.com/files/misc/intel_mid_arch.gif (from
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6616313390.html)

Take out the Intel hw, UEFI and Hildon and substitute the top layer
with learning-oriented software and you have pretty much the
architecture of Sugar.

Also look for architecture docs for GNOME Mobile-based products like
Maemo, OpenMoko or ACCESS Linux Platform:

http://www.gnome.org/mobile/

HTH,

Tomeu

> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
>>>> To give you and idea of my absorption capacity (or lack thereof), l must add
>>>> that I wrote code for DMERT (production system in 5ESS switch) based on UNIX
>>>> SVR2 and was responsible for the R&D UNIX Kernel Development (retrofitting
>>>> the standard UNIX scheduler to the R&D version).  But for the past 17 years
>>>> I have been out of internals and spent most of the time on user level
>>>> services (Windows Netowrking, MS Exchange, MS SMS), Salses Support, Project
>>>> Design, Government Policy, etc.  I am OK with OOP concepts though.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Tariq Badsha
>>>>
>>> Tariq,
>>>
>>> I have cced your request to the sugar development list.  One of the
>>> developers will be able to help you out more then I can.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> david
>>
>> Regards
>> Morgan
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