The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linux is now being sunset.

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[–] 56 points 1 year ago (1 child)

a decade? this is the first I've heard of clear linux.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    i must admit, as someone who has been using Linux (on Intel platforms for that matter) for over a decade i didn’t know this existed. that said, this seems like a huge misstep. maybe it wasn’t a widespread product, but having a reference implementation seems like a no brainer. maybe i’m missing something.

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  • Clear Linux was actually a testbed for intel's compiler optimizations and stateless design concepts - it used function multi-versioning to auto-select the best code paths for your specific CPU at runtime, which is why it benchmarked so well on both Intel and AMD hardwre.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hope this doesn't lead to poorer Intel driver support for Linux 😢

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Whelp, it's over boys and girls. Back to Dirty Linux.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You're a dirty little penguin, aren't you~

    (what the fuck is wrong with me lmao)

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  • Oh no, Intel was such a leader when it came to Linux use....What will the world do now? Everything is over!

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Its not really the most depressing news of the week. Trump opened his mouth many times this week. But yeah, clear Linux never even felt like a viable option. It had good performance but you wouldnt notice that in a day to day desktop experience anyway.

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