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.

  • chrash0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    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.

    • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      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.

    • GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pubEnglish
      22·
      12 days ago

      It wasn’t just a regular distro. It had some package related shenanigans or something. And I doubt it was ever updated beyond GNOME 41.

  • oyzmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    12 days ago

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

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    182·
    12 days 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.

  • mustbe3to20signs@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    11 days ago

    Shutting down is a bit of an understatement. They’re immediately dropping support, based on their own statement.