As reviews go, though, I don’t think much of this. Seriously, there were only three paragraphs that actually functioned as a “review” – the one where you bemoan, rightly, the lack of GIMP and OOffice, and the third- and second-last paras. The rest is just overdramatic ‘gosh how pink’. If you’re going to review the Hannah Monatana remaster (yep, not distro), review how well it’s been done, will it appeal to the target audience, etc. I *know* that 40-something men won’t like the pink, the music etc. Duh. But what does it offer a 12-y.o. girl? Can you select a range of Mily Cyrus music for the start-up? How well as the customisation been? In short, the product is a hannahmontanised kubuntu, how well does it function *as that*?

Otherwise, why bother writing this as a serious review?

The color is lilac.

Apparently the author and I differ enough in opinion that I felt compelled to respond. Not to mention the comments from some people about puking out their nose, etc.
I think the underlying question is “Why?”

It makes computing more approachable. Linux still has the reputation of requiring arcane knowledge in order to be able to use it. Linux has been making great strides in terms of ease of use for those of us whom studying computer systems is low to non-existent in terms of priorities. But it’s still not for everyone. Let the bakers bake better bread and the painters paint better pictures. Meanwhile, while we change the user base of Linux, we change the operating system itself. The back-end is very powerful, but the more end-users who choose to adopt it for everyday systems, the more Linux becomes a relevant system.
I myself have a daughter who is a Hannah Montana fan. There is a big difference between a (desktop, shirt, backpack) with her picture on it and one that was designed from the ground up and carries the name. It imparts an officiality to the item that is important to them at her age. For me, this specific distro is very much relevant, and I look forward to her using it. She is already familiar with 2 versions of windows, 2 distros of Linux, and 1 flavor of unix and uses them on a daily basis. Although she shows little interest in Computational Sciences, with the exception of BASIC programming, that kind of computer literacy can do nothing but good for her in the long run.

This remaster has 2 benefits to it, even with her in that environment:

# Because it is a LiveCD it is physically portable- she can take it anywhere with her.
# It is redistributable, meaning she can share it with her friends. This is not something she can do with a backpack or a shirt.

As for the comments on the security issues from the security professional, you seem to be a bit short-sighted in your own profession. You would be much better off monitoring from the network level than on a box-by-box scenario, labor-wise and effectiveness-wise. You just need to use the right tools. Then it doesn’t matter what distro they use, LiveCD or not.

Thank you to the author. I am downloading it right now.

This doesn’t look like a distro or a remaster. It looks like a plain old desktop theme. You can download themes all day long and not have to reinstall an OS to get Hannah.

Let’s look at the bright side – there still is no Hannah Montana Windows! Steve is going to be hoppin’ mad.