Linus Torvalds never minced words, famously spicing up kernel commentary with creative swearing aimed at incompetent vendors and misguided developers. Early kernel sources overflowed with colorful profanity, insults, and sarcastic abuse—forming an unofficial chronicle of Linux’s early development struggles. Researchers later determined that Linux’s source code contained more profanity per line of code than any major software project. Thus, sysadmins worldwide unwittingly host history’s largest, most carefully curated, and continually growing repository of profane creativity—one kernel panic at a time.
