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Huh, I thought osquery was a Facebook open source project. Surprised to see it under the Linux Foundation now. I wonder if Facebook still uses osquery in its cu

Huh, I thought osquery was a Facebook open source project. Surprised to see it under the Linux Foundation now. I wonder if Facebook still uses osquery in its current form or if they re-forked their own project to evolve separately in-house.

woodruffw 3y ago
I don't know the exact dates, but Facebook turned osquery over to the community back in 2019 or 2020, after a period of uncertainly over (reasonable!) conflicting development interests[1]. It became a LF hosted project sometime after that. (I don't know whether they still use it in-house.) [1]: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/04/18/announcing-the-community-oriented-osquery-fork-osql/ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/04/18/announcing-the-commu...
- mikermcneil 3y ago
  History (tldr): https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#history https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#history There’s also a podcast episode on it with two of the creators: "The story behind the creation of osquery" https://fleetdm.com/podcasts/the-future-of-device-management-ep1 https://fleetdm.com/podcasts/the-future-of-device-management...
ciupicri 3y ago
From https://osquery.io/blog/osquery-foundation https://osquery.io/blog/osquery-foundation > 5 years ago > Today we are excited to announce the creation of the osquery foundation. Please read the Linux Foundation's official announcement. We have created an osquery/foundation repository on GitHub to host the technical charter. > The official repository has been renamed from facebook/osquery to osquery/osquery.