Sometimes I run into a remastered distro that is so odd…so strange…so disgusting…that I don’t even know where to begin in reviewing it. Hannah Montana Linux is one such remastered distribution. Before I get into this review I have to confess that I had no real idea who this Hannah Montana person was before I wrote this review. I’m 40 and I don’t have cable TV. Nor do I bother to listen to very much in the way of today’s crappy music.
So, in order to figure out who Hannah Montana was, I finally broke down and googled her name. She apparently is a character in a Disney TV show. Wow. Who knew?
Here’s the scoop from Wikipedia in case you weren’t in the know about Hannah Montana either:
Hannah Montana is an Emmy Award-nominated[1] American television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006 on Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus) by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night, concealing her real identity from the public, other than her close friends and family.
She apparently warrants her own customized desktop version of Linux for some strange reason that I cannot fathom. So, as always, I will try to put aside my own personal feelings and write as unbiased and objective a review as I can. Well…it’s going to be pretty damn tough in this situation but I promise to try and do my best.
Boot Up & Installation
Hannah Montana Linux is a Live CD version of Linux. So you can opt to use it without actually installing it. If you really need to see what this distribution looks like (as if the screenshots included in this review aren’t enough to ward you off) then I’d say use it as a Live CD so you don’t corrupt your computer’s hard disk by actually installing it.
I opted, as usual, to do the install and didn’t have any problems with it. Since Hannah Montana Linux is Kubuntu you probably won’t have a problem either.
(18 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)
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My niece will LOVE this! I’m downloading it now for her.
Nobody is giving the people responsible for “Hannah Montana” Linux credit for their initiative in easing the next generation into Open Source and away from predatory proprietary companies like you-know-who.
My daughter is now too old for Hannah Montana, but had it been available when she was a ‘tween, I’d have been grateful to expose her to Linux through it. I tried to rope her into Linux with Edubuntu, but she didn’t like its imagery. It was too “little kid” for her.
Now, although she is comfortable in the desktops of several Linux distros (she has used Ubuntu, PCLOS, Linux Mint and Sabayon), she embraces Windoze because it’s easy to sync with her eye-pod, eye-touch and Blackberry. And she keeps asking for a mac.
Sigh.
I didn’t believe this the first time I saw this. What’s next? iCarlyx? High School Musical Linux? Ned’s Linux Survival OS? … (nervous laugh)
You are an idiot!
Why in the world would you go to all the trouble and effort of downloading and installing the Hannah Montana version of Kubuntu when you are obviously so unqualified to write this review.
I am a grandfather of a 12 year old girl who loves Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus. My granddaughter loves the character Hannah Montana, loves the music & dancing and loves the stories. She will love the Hannah Montana desktop and will learn Linux all the better as a result.
You obviously have neither children or grandchildren that are age appropriate for Hannah Montana – too bad for you.
So, thanks for your useless review… Not!
CD Baric
He he he
How ’bout Hello Kitty Linux or Shakira Linux?
Amazing what some people do, what a waste of time
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NnnNOOoOOOOOOOOO!Ooo!!!!!
Oh man,that just makes me want to puke through my nose.
Who had this bright idea?
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thanks for the early morning laugh out loud session
Sorry to be the harbinger of doom but if there is going to be a review of a release that obviously targets young girls can there be some discussion of who created it and whether a decent security audit has been done. Does it phone home?, are any IM tools the standard package? etc etc.
It’s hard enough keeping track of what websites etc my daughter goes on when she uses the laptop I setup for her so there is no way I am going to install a random linux release with no history. Maybe I’m overprotective/cynical and my job is in security but reviews need to take that sort of thing into consideration if the target market is children. Also the author of the release should be mindful of parents concerns, the website for the release is incredibly lacking in info, do you really know what you’re installing for your kids then?
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“I’d much rather have picture of some evil chick with satanic hooters on my desktop than a bastardized Hannah Montana picture of Tux any day.”
Who wouldn’t`?
and also I wouldn’t mind having the evil chick with satanic hooters anyway ^^,
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WTF! Could someone shot me in the head, please? It’s just unfuckingbelievable… why the hell a developer would do such a disgusting thing?
I think he was losing his mind or something like that.