r/unix has 30k members. It gets about 37 posts a month from 31 people. Top topics: Terminal Commands, Shell Scripting and Prompts and FreeBSD Desktop.
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- Terminal Commands6.1%
- Shell Scripting and Prompts3.7%
- FreeBSD Desktop2.1%
- OpenBSD & BSD Systems1.2%
- Linux Desktop1.1%
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