WTF. Facebook?

lupusarcanus · 12-05-2010, 06:51 PM

http://mirror.facebook.net/

Kenny_Strawn · 12-05-2010, 06:55 PM

LOL! How could Facebook have a download mirror for Linux distros?

On second thought: facebook.net instead of facebook.com.

lupusarcanus · 12-05-2010, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kenny_Strawn

LOL! How could Facebook have a download mirror for Linux distros?

On second thought: facebook.net instead of facebook.com.

No! I swear it's part of Facebook. Check the links and stuff!

I am seriously WTF right now.

I installed MacPorts and was installing WINE and saw... Facebook. I was like... huh?

lupusarcanus · 12-05-2010, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kenny_Strawn

LOL! How could Facebook have a download mirror for Linux distros?

On second thought: facebook.net instead of facebook.com.

I also just realized trying to change the .net to .com redirects to .net with the mirror prefix.

XavierP · 12-05-2010, 08:21 PM

I have noticed that a great many servers have a public area that acts as a mirror for distros. Particularly those sites that aim for a "community". Donating spare disk space to worthwhile causes is a great idea and the upside is that less well-known mirrors may not get so thrashed on release dates.

frankbell · 12-05-2010, 08:37 PM

If you click the "About" link at http://mirror.facebook.net/, there's a lot of stuff that looks like Facebook pimping Facebook.

lupusarcanus · 12-05-2010, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

If you click the "About" link at http://mirror.facebook.net/, there's a lot of stuff that looks like Facebook pimping Facebook.

Uh...

I don't understand the usage of the word 'pimping' in that context. Could you clarify?

cantab · 12-07-2010, 06:05 PM

I might guess that it's primarily intended for internal and employee use, but they've decided to make it public for simplicity and because the extra server load won't be noticed.

TobiSGD · 12-07-2010, 06:16 PM

I don't know how accurate the film is, but as I looked the film The Social Network, which is a film about the creation of Facebook, I noticed that Mark Zuckerberg always used Linux on his computers. Maybe he is a fan?

jlliagre · 12-08-2010, 04:05 AM

Quoted from http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/ :

We host a public mirror for projects such as Apache, Centos, CPAN, Fedora, GNU, Mozilla, MySQL, and much more...

rsciw · 12-08-2010, 06:28 AM

what, no Debian?

fbook themselves run all/majority of their servers on CentOS apparently, according to one of their chief techs ( can't find the interview link anymore...)