On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 at 21:27, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:56 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > <tdtemc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Subject: Are Meta/Facebook servers using Fedora Linux? > > > > Good day from Singapore, > > > > I have just come across this article. > > > > Article: Fedora's FESCo Rejects The Idea Of "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" > > As Default Compiler Flag > > Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Rejects-No-Omit-FP > > > > [QUOTE] > > > > As a change proposal first initiated by Meta/Facebook developers, they > > wanted -fno-omit-frame-pointer and -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer to be > > added to the default C/C++ compilation flags. > > > > ...snipped... > > > > Meta engineers believe that any performance cost is small and worth it > > while SUSE engineers previously cited around possible 5~10% > > regressions. > > > > [/QUOTE] > > > > From the above quotes, I thought that Meta/Facebook servers are using > > Fedora Linux, or at least Linux servers. > > > > Anyone can confirm? > > I don't have first hand knowledge of Meta, but I have a fair amount of > enterprise experience. A large enterprise will have a large number of > technology stacks. It will look like the wild, wild west. They will > likely allow Fedora, in addition to other distros like Alpine, Debian, > the BSDs and Ubuntu. And they will also allow a heap of developmental > languages. > > I often recommend Fedora Server anytime I see folks using RHEL or > CentOS. I don't understand why organizations run that antique software > that is no longer in development. Fedora provides modern software and > is in active development with continuous bug fixes. > > The "in active development" part is important. Old versions of > software and kernels just accumulate more unfixed bugs over time. Most > developers don't spend time on old versions of software, so the known > bugs don't get fixed. Adversaries love that property of old software. > https://thenewstack.io/design-system-can-update-greg-kroah-hartman-linux-security/ > . > > I eat my own dog food. I run Fedora Servers at my house. > > Jeff
We are pampered with too many choices of Enterprise Linux distros. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
