The Sugar Learning Platform is an innovative learning interface for children, which encourages learning, critical thinking, and creativity. Sugar was originally created for the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative. The traditional "office-desktop" style computer interface can be quite intimidating and is often not very accessible for children who are learning to read and write. Sugar offers an alternative, more child-friendly approach to learning and computing.

To install the Sugar platform in fedora, you can either select System > Administration > Add/Remove Software on the GNOME panel, and then type sugar in the screen that pops up; or alternatively type su -c "yum install sugar" in a terminal. There is also an alternate version of Fedora featuring the Sugar Platform, known as Sugar on a Stick It is available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/

Various Sugar Activities are also available through the Fedora package repositories. To browse the available sugar activities through the GNOME package manager, select System > Administration > Add/Remove Software on the GNOME panel, and then type sugar- in the screen that pops up; you will be presented with a list of packages relating to Sugar. Alternatively, type su -c "yum install sugar-" in a terminal window.

More information on Sugar for learners, parents, teachers, and contributors can be found at the official website, http://sugarlabs.org/