goomba is the successor to the aging demidevimon. Instead of being a homebrew built-from-scratch affair or running my homebrew distro, it's running Debian. Doing things yourself is fun, but I saw great maintenance and security advantages in going with an established distribution.
goomba is named after the very first enemy you encounter in the first level of Super Mario Bros.
The sweet EFF sticker was given to me by Seth Schoen. I finally have a computer I felt like I could put it on.
I bought and assembled goomba on October 9, 2006. I thought of a name and installed the operating system on October 19. I switched demidevimon over to goomba at 12:45 AM on December 30, 2006.