First reported by Tom’s Hardware, Linux-based gaming just got a massive shot in the arm thanks to developer Noah Cagle. That’s right, baby: Hannah Montana Linux is back.
Ok, maybe less a “shot in the arm” and more a “completely neutral development”—more on that in a second—but HML is a fully fledged OS capable of doing all the OS-y things you could possibly want, and it won’t take screenshots of your desktop or try to sell you a chatbot either. “If you want to,” said Cagle in his video about the project, “you can use Hannah Montana Linux as your main day-to-day operating system.”
Cagle’s project is an “update”—perhaps, arguably, a “remake” or “homage”—to a 2000s original with a delightfully retro webpage. But the OG Hannah Montana Linux has not been updated since 2009, leaving it unable to access most of the modern internet.
Which is good, because a lack of security updates means it would probably be super vulnerable to threats if it could. Little is known about the 21st Century Prometheus who gave us this gift, nor why they ultimately decided to turn their back on us.