I almost included the debian reference too! But I wanted to go further back to the linux potato, which WAS a true story, in fact it was trendy for bit, and I am pretty sure several were made. I remember when that was NEWS lol.
But then again, I remember building slackware at DefCons and 2600 hacker conventions off build servers with 20 laptops snaked off them on hubs. Just so we could play hacker wars and try to smoke each other's HDDs.
Oh yes, those were the days...