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It's been so many years since Clear Linux started showing up on benchmarks and beating everybody, I'm extremely disappointed that it's almost 2022 and the other
by dyingkneepad 5y ago
It's been so many years since Clear Linux started showing up on benchmarks and beating everybody, I'm extremely disappointed that it's almost 2022 and the other distros still didn't adopt the improvements proposed by Clear. It's not like the things Clear does can't be done by Debian or Fedora or whatever, it's not like Clear is hiding their secrets from the others... Their improvements are, well, quite Clear for the others to copy.
- jhoechtl 5y agoThat sound interesting, can you give some/one example?
- dyingkneepad 5y agohttps://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu1810-fast-clear&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu18...
- jraph 5y agoWhat compiler is used to build Clear Linux? I took some time to find out whether they used the Intel C Compiler or GCC (maybe with the right options) a few months ago but didn't succeed.
- dyingkneepad 5y agoEdit: they use gcc. I don't know, but you could just ask on their IRC channel. My guess would be gcc.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoI'm pretty sure that linux kernel has so many gcc-isms that you can't compile it with another compiler without massive changes to it.
- dyingkneepad 5y agoThere are efforts to get it to build on clang and I would imagine it's mostly done by now, since this started years ago. But besides the Kernel there's also the whole rest of the distro. The Kernel is the easy part.