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Facebook Linux, What Distro is it?

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 11, 2012

 

We’ve all known for some time that Facebook’s infrastructure is for the most part running on Linux.

What I didn’t know until very recently was which Linux distribution Facebook was using. I caught up with Amir Michael, Server system lead at Facebook the other week at LinuxCon and I asked him.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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