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As soon as I saw it was a project by Intel I rolled my eyes and ignored it.

toshinoriyagi 1y ago
I mean, Clear Linux was the leader in the vast majority of Linux benchmarks, to my knowledge. So much so that even AMD used it in their advertised benchmarks for CPU releases because of the performance advantage. I think it was quite successful, and I doubt they are shuttering it because they don't see the value in it, but because of overall lackluster company performance and the new CEO cutting costs/the workforce aggressively.
- nine_k 1y ago
  It being a Linux distro, I wonder how soon a viable fork will appear.
  - bjconlan 1y ago
    Fingers crossed. I probably just did my last fresh install of this a couple of days ago and my last swupd update now. You will be missed...
  - Sunspark 1y ago
    I don't think there will be one, a company would need to commit to salaried devs. What would the value-added proposition be for them that they can't get by using any other distro out there?
  - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
    The problem is that Clear Linux did a lot of tweaking in their packaging to get good performance, up to and including actual code patching IIRC, so it would be a nontrivial ongoing effort to continue that work.
- yakz 1y ago
  As a user I found it to be pretty buggy; driver issues on Intel NUCs causing instability.
StableAlkyne 1y ago
What's going on over at Intel anyway? This happened recently with Scitkit-Learn Intelex, which was a drop-in replacement for some parts of sklearn that was a bit faster. One day, the Intel channel on Conda just stopped working (and I learned that Anaconda loses the will to live when a random channel you installed one package from is unavailable) and another organization took over Sklearn Intelex. No communication could be found on Google connecting them to Intel (whose only news around the package was announcing the initial release a few years ago), you had to read the Git issue history to find people talking about the transfer. I still have no idea what even happened to their Conda channel after the sudden disappearance. The complete lack of communication just left a bad taste in my mouth...
- esseph 1y ago
  Multiple, multiple, multiple rounds of mass firings. Check the news past couple of months. Also completely outsourced all marketing.
squarefoot 1y ago
Is OpenCV still owned by Intel, or dependent by them (funding, engineers, etc)? There are many good distros out there, but to my knowledge OpenCV has no other FOSS alternative on par with it.
- mikepurvis 1y ago
  Pretty sure Intel abandoned it like fifteen years ago, and then Willow Garage employed some of the people, now there’s an independent OpenCV Foundation. But I have no idea who’s actually paying the bills, behind the scenes.

I mean, Clear Linux was the leader in the vast majority of Linux benchmarks, to my knowledge. So much so that even AMD used it in their advertised benchmarks for CPU releases because of the performance advantage. I think it was quite successful, and I doubt they are shuttering it because they don't see the value in it, but because of overall lackluster company performance and the new CEO cutting costs/the workforce aggressively.

nine_k 1y ago
It being a Linux distro, I wonder how soon a viable fork will appear.
- bjconlan 1y ago
  Fingers crossed. I probably just did my last fresh install of this a couple of days ago and my last swupd update now. You will be missed...
- Sunspark 1y ago
  I don't think there will be one, a company would need to commit to salaried devs. What would the value-added proposition be for them that they can't get by using any other distro out there?
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
  The problem is that Clear Linux did a lot of tweaking in their packaging to get good performance, up to and including actual code patching IIRC, so it would be a nontrivial ongoing effort to continue that work.
yakz 1y ago
As a user I found it to be pretty buggy; driver issues on Intel NUCs causing instability.

StableAlkyne 1y ago

What's going on over at Intel anyway? This happened recently with Scitkit-Learn Intelex, which was a drop-in replacement for some parts of sklearn that was a bit faster. One day, the Intel channel on Conda just stopped working (and I learned that Anaconda loses the will to live when a random channel you installed one package from is unavailable) and another organization took over Sklearn Intelex. No communication could be found on Google connecting them to Intel (whose only news around the package was announcing the initial release a few years ago), you had to read the Git issue history to find people talking about the transfer. I still have no idea what even happened to their Conda channel after the sudden disappearance. The complete lack of communication just left a bad taste in my mouth...

esseph 1y ago
Multiple, multiple, multiple rounds of mass firings. Check the news past couple of months. Also completely outsourced all marketing.

squarefoot 1y ago

Is OpenCV still owned by Intel, or dependent by them (funding, engineers, etc)? There are many good distros out there, but to my knowledge OpenCV has no other FOSS alternative on par with it.

mikepurvis 1y ago
Pretty sure Intel abandoned it like fifteen years ago, and then Willow Garage employed some of the people, now there’s an independent OpenCV Foundation. But I have no idea who’s actually paying the bills, behind the scenes.