/g/ Roster

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Main Roster

Starters

Position	No.	Name	Image	Description
GK	1	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.
RB	9	No Drivers		ATI's drivers had issues, Serious Issues. With years of experience on the /g/ team of having absolutely no drivers.
CB	3	Tay.ai		Tay was an artificial intelligence chatterbot that was originally released by Microsoft Corporation via Twitter on March 23, 2016; it caused subsequent controversy when the bot began to post tweets deemed offensive and among the likes of anti-semitic and racist. The bot was eventually shut down very quickly after release to stop it's hilarious tweets.
CB	4	Something Happened		The infamous and unhelpful error message that was supplied in recent versions of the windows operating system. When enemy strikers attempt to enter the /g/ defences, They will be stopped and greeted by Something Happened.
LB	29	*BSD		Berkley Software Distribution. A lesser known cousin of GNU/Linux.
DMF	5	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	7	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]
CMF	35	Terry A. Davis		Notorious American Programmer who started development for TempleOS in 2003 after a brutal series of manic episodes which left him hospitalised. Davis is a former atheist who believes that he can "talk with God" and that God told him the operating system he built was God's third temple. According to Davis TempleOS is of 'Divine' intellect due to the inspired nature of the code. According to Davis, God said to create the operating system with 640x480, 16 colors display and a single audio voice.
AMF	10	Botnet		Chrome? Botnet. Windows? Botnet. To /g/, a botnet is any software that isn't free as in freedom.
SS	14	No Time for Love		Desktop Thread
CF	11	Install Gentoo		"Hey /g/, what distro should I install?"

Substitutes

Position	No.	Name	Image	Description
GK	16	Common Sense		Instead of bothering /g/, why don't you try to use a little Common Sense™, now completely free and libre!
GK	85	Free Software		Free as in "freedom," not free as in "free beer." See: FSF on Free Software.
CB	2	>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	96	SICP		A legendary book from an introductory programming course at MIT. RIP /prog/.
DMF	42	Murdock		Founder and the "-ian" of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. His contributions to the GNU/Linux ecosystem will not be forgotten.
DMF	17	Unsafe Eggplant		This phallic emoji makes people feel unsafe in our community. We need to take swift and clear action in removing this harasser to ensure no one gets hurt.
DMF	18	Pencil Dick		"If You Don’t Make It At Tesla, You Go Work At Apple" -Elon Musk
DMF	19	Deep Dreaming		Do machines dream?
CMF	20	Torvalds		Linus Torvalds - Chief architect of the Linux kernel and creator of git.
CMF	61	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	22	DPT		/dpt/ - Daily Programming Thread. What are you working on, /g/?
CMF	23	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. [2]
Ritchie		Creator of the C programming laguage and co-creator of the Unix operating system. Rest in Peace dmr.
Audiophiles		Typical audiophile. Note the obsession for overpriced placebo electronics.
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.