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HML = Hanna Montana Linux Distro

hannahmontana.sourceforge.net

17 pointssteve91813 comments

Here's what will happen.

Through some seemingly-tiny feature of the OS that the developer arbitrarily decided to include (something not related to Hannah Montana), this will become the best-choice Linux distro for a small group of people. A couple of these people will turn out to be brilliantly gifted hackers, and will continue to enhance the OS to the point where it begins to overtake other distros in overall experience.

HML becomes the flagship distro of the Open Source movement, and on its strength Linux finally overtakes proprietary OSs and establishes a dominant market share. Eventually, nearly every computer on the planet runs HML. By 2100, HML is the only thing anyone remembers the name "Hannah Montana" for.

So 2100 is finally the year of linux in desktop! ;)

This is entertaining. Is it intended to be serious at all? because having these 2 Q&As consecutively in the faq:

--- Q : How/why did you make such a great OS? A : I thought - what would attract young users to Linux? So I created this idea after a lot of reading and work.

Q : How can I watch DVDs and other Media? A : click the Hannah Montana menu, then Utilities, then Konsole, then type: sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 kubuntu-restricted-extras ---

is comical. to me, this says, "it's for kids, and the first thing they should learn is that linux requires you to learn obscure things to do stuff that's easy as pie and very commonly used on other computers."

On the other hand, this is exactly the level of quality of most merchandise displaying the Hannah Montana brand.

What learning? You're asked to paste something into a terminal, not to understand it. That's not learning.

After I choked back the vomit, I began to think "Shouldn't this just be an Ubuntu theme?".

I'm pretty sure it is just a KDE theme over Kubuntu.

Apart from the trademark infringement, copyright infringement and the headache inducing colour clash on the website of peach and lilac and the fact the theme creator thinks they made a new OS, apart from that it all looks great.

I'm curious about the "Truth" page in the SourceForge site, that page can't be viewed, does it tell us that the rest of the site is a lie?

HML has better ZFS and more drivers for exotic RAID controllers. So, no.

The diversity of GNU/Linux distros is turning into something similar to rule 34 :

"If X exists, there is an X-themed Linux distro"

Someone must be held responsible for this.

I'm waiting for HML Server Edition.

I contemplated loading it for my daughter for a second... naw

Why not? A lot of goods offer pleasant and appealingly themed branding to lure customers to adopt their use. At least this one is educational and might help serve her more in the future.

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