Final Thoughts & Who Should Use It
Hannah Montana Linux is clearly geared toward those who are, in fact, Hannah Montana fans. I’m guessing that this group must be comprised mainly of very young people. I can’t imagine adults really being fans of this obnoxious little TV pop tart.
If you aren’t a Hannah Montana fan, don’t download this distribution. Unless you are a masochist and you like the color purple or dark pink or whatever the heck it is…
Having said all of that, I give the people who did this distro a great deal of credit because they did a good job customizing it. Yes, I hate the whole Hannah Montana thing but they made sure that the boot screen, icons, color scheme, etc. were all customized with Hannah Montana themed replacements.
Overall, I think they did a good job turning Kubuntu into Hannabuntu. I’m not going to penalize this distro in the final scoring despite the fact that Hannah Montana makes me want to hurl. You have to give credit where credit is due and this customization of Kubuntu is actually pretty well done…if you are a Hannah Montana fan.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I must purge my computer of all things Hannah and pretend I never wrote this review in the first place.
Ugh.
Summary Table:
| Product: | Hannah Montana Linux |
| Web Site: | http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/ |
| Price: | Free |
| Pros: | Hannah Montana wallpaper, customized Hannah Montana desktop including cheesy Hannah Montana desktop music. |
| Cons: | Well…it’s Hannah Montana…you either like it or you don’t. |
| Suitable For: | Hannah Montana fans only. No others should ever contemplate installing this distro. Ever. |
| Summary: | A tongue-in-cheek distro that Hannah Montana fans will love and all others will probably detest. |
| Rating: | 3.5/5 |
(18 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)
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hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
great review.
Jim, I got a kick out of seeing this! My ten year old girl just went to Girl Scout Camp for a week, but I *HAVE* to get this one for her – she runs mostly Nick.com and disney stuff when she does get on the computer.
However, my eight year old son is with me now. He’d rather have PCLinuxOS, and his reaction to Hannah Montana Linux was like yours – yuck! :-) He did say though, well, if they have a Hanna Montana Linux, maybe I should do a search and see if they have a Star Wars Linux! :-)
At least we don’t have an iCarly.com Linux or a Drake&Josh Linux or Zoey101 Linux – yet! (Have a ten year year old daughter and you will discover what is “complete non-sense to us”, but what is “so cool” to them)! :-)
Ah, girlie stuff… I still remember some other Ubuntu variation that was supposed to appeal to women, and instead, it created a furor! This one should do no such thing, unless people get concerned about a little girlie system for elementary aged girls “TAKING OVER THE WORLD!”
I think we ought to have a good Scooby Doo Linux myself. Now that one I might use once in a while, though I do not see it replacing any of my main systems!
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Obviously you have never looked going through the tween girls section at Target on your way to electronics.
Let’s just say Disney Licencing! Brings a tear to my eye thinking of Barbie and Hot Wheels Computers.
But Graven images aside it goes to show you how far we have come that kids (and it had to be) can fully customize the complete look of a distro.
I think the bigger ‘injustice’ here is that you keep referring to it as a distro.
It isn’t a distro, it’s a remaster.
you could just as easily call it “Kubuntu Hannah”
one of the biggest reasons people think there are too many distros is because people don’t know how to tell the difference between a ‘distro’ and a ‘remaster’
It’s a remaster targeted to a particular niche group who prefers that particular decoration/presentation without having to figure out how to do all that themselves.
no big deal.
Big Bear
bigbearomaha wrote:
That’s a great distinction, Big Bear. I’ll try to bear that in mind in future reviews. Thanks for pointing it out.
Agree. I’am sick with so many ‘distro’. The real distro just a little only.
Debian is a distro.
*buntu, sidux, mepisLinux, Dream Linux is Debian fork.
Ultimate edition, satan, uce, sabily, super os, opengeu, CrunchBang, Easy Peasy, PC/OS, *buntu base is ubuntu remaster.
Basicly ubuntu remaster/derivative will have the same bug like ubuntu. One bug with jaunty is ‘soft reset fail’ if boot from USB flash drive. Jim, u never know if just try using virtual pc.
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Yes, Hannah Montana Linux really qualifies more of a “respin” pr a “remaster” of the main distribution, Kubuntu, than deserving of the full title of a “distribution”. We could say that it is a distribution based on Kubuntu. I would consider Kubuntu to qualify as a complete distribution. It has sufficient distinctive features to differentiate itself from its Ubuntu parent and from Debian, the core technology behind it.
Having these special interest systems is something I find interesting. I think that “respins” like this one may very easily be burned into EPROM, USB SSD, or some similar media to create inexpensive, special purpose appliances for specific audiences. I could see selling a $50-75 simple computer with something like Hannah Montana Linux on it and selling it to the third to sixth grade “girl” audience.
I think that if Google does their homework well, they could use either their Android, Chrome OS, or a combination of those technologies, to market custom hand held mobile devices for consumers in a variety of markets.
We’re just experimenting with stuff like Hannah Montana Linux for the fun and novelty of it, but can’t you see the potential for integrators to target specific markets by creating inexpensive devices and actually selling them to their targeted customer base? I think it may happen and I already see it happening on a small scale.
This distribution is not the answer, but it does point to the potential that we are beginning to untap with these creative variations.
I give it 7 ½ starrs! Just for the (bizarre) idea!
Really, if preteen girls are already ‘contaminated’ with that stuff, well, what could be worse than givin’ a Windows computer for them to use? It would break their minds with its (purposeful) nonsense.
HML may be a good system (and get better on the way) and some smart guy(s) made it free for the kids..
Cheer up!
What we have learned from this review is that Jim Lynch is not the giggling 12 year old girl many of us thought he was.:smile:
But seriously, I think they erred by basing this on Kubuntu. They would have been better served tarting up gOS instead. I mean it has most of the icons likely to be used by the target audience already preinstalled on the lower dock. And, based on my experience, young girls seem to prefer a dock like interface for some reason.
As sort of a point of clarification, Miley Cyrus who portrays Hanna Montana, is a one person multi-billion dollar conglomerate. The kid is set for life many times over, and she is not even 18 yet!
I am curious if they had to get permission to do this respin. Perhaps since they are not selling it, the Disney folks consider it free advertising.
Michael Jackson Moonwalk Ubuntu anyone? Get it? It automatically backs up!
I can’t imagine it will be too long until before the creators get an angry letter from Disney for trademark infringement – especially if you start to get any traction.
Now we just need someone to complement this with “Ben 10 Linux”.
They ought to make degrassi the next generation linux. TMNT Linux after that for sure.
This is a very poor remaster. You just downloaded 700mb for a specific background, kde color scheme, and music.
What would have made the joke even funnier is not including any apps of any kind and remove network/internet support making this remaster.That way all you could do is turn on the computer to do nothing more than enjoy the color scheme, background, and music.
Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney had a few issuses with this.