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.

  • Midnight WolfEnglish
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    4 months ago

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

      • Midnight WolfEnglish
        121·
        4 months ago

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

        (what the fuck is wrong with me lmao)

        • ZeroOneEnglish
          41·
          4 months ago

          There’s plenty of wrong with you Wolfie 😂

          • one_knight_scriptingEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            I find it highly unlikely that there are children hanging around in the Linux community. Perhaps teenagers, but I would expect them to be more mature than their peers and able to understand such an innocent joke.

          • Midnight WolfEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Oh no, everyone knows that children aren’t allowed on the internet. Also all teenagers and younger adults partake in abstinence until they get married. Me and me alone are filling their minds with devil thoughts! Those filthy penguins, they better delete those flapper images right now - this is a Christian internet!

            Won’t somebody please think of the children?!

  • chrash0English
    29·
    4 months 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.

    • MysteriousSophon21English
      2·
      4 months 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·
      4 months 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.

  • oyzmoEnglish
    221·
    4 months ago

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

    • ZeroOneEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Yeah that. Especially their ARC-GPUs

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    192·
    4 months 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
    9·
    4 months ago

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