/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	Poo Fan		Honestly, what else would you call them?
DMF	19	Audiophiles		There seems to be a lot of misconceptions in the music community regarding the differences between 320kbps mp3 and FLAC format. It is true that 320kbps is technically as good as FLAC, but there are other reasons to get music in a lossless format. Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media. I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.
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	6	Botnet		Chrome? Botnet. Windows? Botnet. To /g/, a botnet is any software that isn't free as in freedom.
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	Murdock		Founder and the "-ian" of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. His contributions to the GNU/Linux ecosystem will not be forgotten.
CB	34	SICP		A legendary book from an introductory programming course at MIT. RIP /prog/.
CB	23	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.
CB	8	Pencil Dick		"If You Don’t Make It At Tesla, You Go Work At Apple" -Elon Musk
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]