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100 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611098 > After years of innovation and community collaborati

100 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611098 > After years of innovation and community collaboration, we’re ending support for Clear Linux OS. Effective immediately, Intel will no longer provide security patches, updates, or maintenance for Clear Linux OS, and the Clear Linux OS GitHub repository will be archived in read-only mode.. Intel remains deeply invested in the Linux ecosystem, actively supporting and contributing to various open-source projects and Linux distributions to enable and optimize for Intel hardware.

cedws 1y ago
It's a shame but I've never heard of anybody using it to be honest.
- walterbell 1y ago
  > never heard of anybody using it 5 million downloads of the Docker image, https://hub.docker.com/_/clearlinux/ https://hub.docker.com/_/clearlinux/ It was a reference distro for performance optimizations, which will hopefully find their way into upstream projects and mainstream distros, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-Clear-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-Clear-Linux Clear Linux has delivered many great out-of-the-box performance optimizations for Linux systems and shown what can be done for packaging with profile guided optimizations / link-time optimizations, various kernel tweaks, and other innovations over the years. At least the likes of CachyOS have picked up some of these optimizations. Intel engineers are also working with other major Linux distributions on enhancing their Linux distribution performance too.
  - cedws 1y ago
    Over the lifetime of CL that’s not very much. Docker pulls isn’t a great metric either because images tend to get pulled repeatedly in CI pipelines.
    - bravetraveler 1y ago
      When considerable portions of the optimizations are things like trading away journaling (in the kernel), I find it's neither effective or recommended. If those tweaks did anything under a container, they might risk your data for performance. Clear as a container is a niche of a niche.

cedws 1y ago

It's a shame but I've never heard of anybody using it to be honest.

walterbell 1y ago
> never heard of anybody using it 5 million downloads of the Docker image, https://hub.docker.com/_/clearlinux/ https://hub.docker.com/_/clearlinux/ It was a reference distro for performance optimizations, which will hopefully find their way into upstream projects and mainstream distros, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-Clear-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-Clear-Linux Clear Linux has delivered many great out-of-the-box performance optimizations for Linux systems and shown what can be done for packaging with profile guided optimizations / link-time optimizations, various kernel tweaks, and other innovations over the years. At least the likes of CachyOS have picked up some of these optimizations. Intel engineers are also working with other major Linux distributions on enhancing their Linux distribution performance too.
- cedws 1y ago
  Over the lifetime of CL that’s not very much. Docker pulls isn’t a great metric either because images tend to get pulled repeatedly in CI pipelines.
  - bravetraveler 1y ago
    When considerable portions of the optimizations are things like trading away journaling (in the kernel), I find it's neither effective or recommended. If those tweaks did anything under a container, they might risk your data for performance. Clear as a container is a niche of a niche.