r/freebsd↗
FreeBSD
Unofficial subreddit for the FreeBSD Project
52k subscribers145 posts / mo in Sep 202692 authors / mosince 2008
r/freebsd has 52k members (+30% over the last 12 months). It gets about 145 posts a month from 92 people. Top topics: FreeBSD Desktop, ZFS & Proxmox Storage and OpenBSD & BSD Systems.
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- FreeBSD Desktop29%
- ZFS & Proxmox Storage5.9%
- OpenBSD & BSD Systems1.3%
- KDE Distro Discussion1.2%
- Wayland & Compositors0.9%
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