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Work · April 8, 2016

Distributed dmesg at Facebook

A variety of utilities built and maintained by Facebook's Linux Kernel Team that we wish to share with the community. - facebookarchive/fbkutils

Distributed dmesg at Facebook launched on April 8, 2016 with 10 votes, #1,846 of 4,301 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

In plain words

Distributed dmesg is a collection of Linux utilities developed and maintained by Facebook's Linux Kernel Team. The tools are designed for system administrators and developers working with Linux systems at scale. The project provides open-source utilities that Facebook's internal teams use for kernel-level debugging and system management tasks, made available to the broader community through GitHub.

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