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0 pointspixelbeat__3y ago0 comments

Designed/Built/Deployed Meta's backend operating system for the last 7 years

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> Meta's backend operating system for the last 7 years

Sounds interesting, I had no idea Facebook had their own OS - presumably a Debian derivative?

No, it's completely built from source, and finely tuned to the vast/quite homogeneous hardware, and deployment model. Though yes it is Linux based.

If I can ask do you mean like a customized distribution with what I assume to be a heavily patched kernel?

Or is it just the kernel with a totally new/different userland from a normal “Linux” box?

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0 pointspixelbeat__3y ago0 comments

Designed/Built/Deployed Meta's backend operating system for the last 7 years

> Meta's backend operating system for the last 7 years

Sounds interesting, I had no idea Facebook had their own OS - presumably a Debian derivative?

No, it's completely built from source, and finely tuned to the vast/quite homogeneous hardware, and deployment model. Though yes it is Linux based.

If I can ask do you mean like a customized distribution with what I assume to be a heavily patched kernel?

Or is it just the kernel with a totally new/different userland from a normal “Linux” box?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse