#FreeDOS
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #FreeDOS from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 04:21 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-27 04:21 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 04:21 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~3538 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (34) · German (2) · Russian (1) · Spanish (1) · Dutch (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.1
Top of the latest posts
I like using #FreeDOS to explain how a computer starts up. DOS is simple enough and small enough that you can see the moving parts. And once you see how it works in DOS, you can understand more complex systems like #Linux https://www.both.o
When I was an undergrad physics student, I used emTeX on DOS to write my lab reports in #LaTeX And yes, emTeX runs great under #FreeDOS 🤓 Here's a demo of how to write, process, and view a few sample emTeX documents: https://technicallywew
Here's a conference presentation I gave back in December about #FreeDOS Thanks to Google DevFest for sharing the video. https://youtu.be/G3kFJg1pgrg Mine was the only presentation that day that *wasn't* about AI.
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