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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    9 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
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      2 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·
      9 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·
    9 days ago

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

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    English
    182·
    9 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·
    9 days ago

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