#unix
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #unix from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #unix
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-09 04:00 UTC50 uses by 42 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-09 04:00 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-09 04:00 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~81 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (31) · German (4) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.8
Top of the latest posts
@juandesant this is built into bash as $RANDOM and $SRANDOM as well. Its been there since 1989 when it was created, but the Korn shell seems to have invented the idea in 1986. #UNIX #Linux #bash #chaos
Hey #FreeBSD folks! 🐡 I recently, as of yesterday, installed FreeBSD on my ThinkPad E14 Gen 4, and will document my journey coming from Debian GNU/Linux over to something that is BSD. I’ve had some knowledge of FreeBSD from past interactio
Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment Week 01, Segment 01: Introduction In this video lecture, we provide an introduction, discuss the purpose of the class, the syllabus, student expectations, as well as available resources. Note: T
What “unix” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaUnix is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, the development of which started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. Initially intended for use inside the Bell System, AT&T licensed Unix to outside parties in the late 1970s, leading to a variety of both academic and commercial Unix variants from vendors including Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), Microsoft (Xenix), Sun Microsyst
“Unix” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#unix across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #unix straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/unix