/g/ Roster

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Main Roster

Starters

Position	No.	Name	Image	Description
GK	31	Stallman		Richard Matthew Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and GNU project. Also known as rms. Check out his personal website at stallman.org.
CB	5	CS Grad		Examples of awful code such as the type that a Computer Science graduate might write. CS majors can be found saying such things as "I'm doing CS so I can make games!"
CB	75	Housefires		nVidia's "Fermi" line of graphics cards ran notoriously hot and were said to cause housefires. Nvidia™ The Way It's Meant to be Played©
CB	11	Guts Thread		"Hey /g/, check out my $2000 4chan machine!" Guts threads are where /g/ users show off their expensive high performance machines while not watching anime, browsing 4chan, or doing some light coding.
DMF	6	Botnet		Chrome? Botnet. Windows? Botnet. To /g/, a botnet is any software that isn't free as in freedom.
DMF	27	*BSD		Berkley Software Distribution. The lesser known cousin of GNU/Linux.
CMF	7	GNU/Linux		I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
CMF	26	Failed /g/ Project		/g/ has a number of failed projects, but of special note is Tox. Example Tox User: "Hey Anon, can I have your cell number?" "Nah, I don't carry around government tracking devices 24/7. You can add me on TOX. My ID is EF8BB17FBA75CE1BC4E42E784CF813D5B481CA8654B7BE848A0F456D603E6004E6870A1428D4." "T-Thanks..."
SS	19	Audiophiles		Typical audiophile. Note the obsession for overpriced placebo electronics.
SS	9	No Time for Love		Desktop Thread
CF	10	Install Gentoo		"Hey /g/, what distro should I install?"

Substitutes

Position	No.	Name	Image	Description
GK	22	Common Sense		Instead of bothering /g/, why don't you try to use a little Common Sense™, now completely free and libre!
GK	18	Free Software		Free as in "freedom," not free as in "free beer." See: FSF on Free Software.
CB	25	>two clocks		>muh minimalism An easy way to tell who is or isn't dedicated enough to go full autism on their android homescreen.
CB	66	Ritchie		Creator of the C programming laguage and co-creator of the Unix operating system. Rest in Peace dmr.
CB	34	SICP		A legendary book from an introductory programming course at MIT. RIP /prog/.
CB	23	FemSF		C+= (pronounced either C-plus-Equality, or See Equality) is a feminist programming language, created to smash the toxic Patriarchy that is inherent in and that permeates all current computer programming languages. Check it out on Github!
CB	8	Steve Jobs		"I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." -Stallman on the death of Steve Jobs
DMF	21	Deep Dreaming		Do machines dream?
DMF	3	Torvalds		Linus Torvalds - Chief architect of the Linux kernel and creator of git.
DMF	95	ThinkPad		IBM ThinkPad: Legendary build quality, extensively customizable, and damn sexy. Some users of /g/ will tell you that if it's not ten years old and worth $50, it's not worth using.
CMF	33	DPT		/dpt/ - Daily Programming Thread. What are you working on, /g/?
CMF	77	Green Is My Pepper		A legendary green pepper paintbrush that's included by default in the photo editing software GIMP.

Notable Retired Players

Name	Image	Description
Teedus		Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts.
No Drivers		ATI's drivers had issues. After being cut from the /g/ team No Drivers has found his calling in the Formula 4CC.
Woodscrews		nVidia demonstrating complete incompetence by using a poorly made fake GPU at a tech conference.
Ballmer		Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft. Famous for DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS.
Terrorist Watch		Also known as the Casio F-91W, /g/ loves this watch for being durable, reliable, and dirt cheap. These same features also caught the attention of the expert time-bomb manufacturers of al-Qaeda, leading it to be determined as 'the sign of al-Qaeda' and a contributing factor to continued detention of prisoners by the analysts stationed at Guantánamo Bay. [1]