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I may be wrong here, but as far as I understand one of the major advantages is simply that they have many versions of certain important libraries in your syste

I may be wrong here, but as far as I understand one of the major advantages is simply that they have many versions of certain important libraries in your system and are able to select the one that better matches your hardware. Most distros are super generic and none of the system libraries are making use of instructions that are not present in all of the x86-64 machines ever released. It makes me really sad that other distros are not following Clear's lead here.

gtirloni 7y ago
Well, Stampede Linux had this more than a decade ago and it wasn't a big enough differentiator.
bitwize 7y ago
Other (binary) distros are solving for a different problem: providing a good-enough generic base that runs on most systems. If you want everything micro-optimized to your particular system's hardware configuration, you know where to find Gentoo.
- zlynx 7y ago
  Although Clear does it with prebuilt binary libraries. No need to compile your own.
pavon 7y ago
I'm pretty sure Clear only has a single build target. For example, their RPM repository[1], only has a single arch (x86_64) and a single RPM for each package. I think it is mostly that they (1) invested effort in maxing out the optimization flags for all the libraries (2) have a higher minimum CPU requirements (must support SSE 4.2, which was first released ~10 years ago). But yes, I agree it would be nice if other distros had two amd64 releases; one that targeted newer hardware, and another for lowest-common denominator. [1] https://cdn.download.clearlinux.org/releases/32250/clear/x86_64/os/Packages/ https://cdn.download.clearlinux.org/releases/32250/clear/x86...