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    Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

    (community.clearlinux.org)
    125 points todsacerdoti | 11 comments | 18 Jul 25 23:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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    hardwaresofton ◴[18 Jul 25 23:49 UTC] No.44611122[source]▶
    Knowing which projects/languages/frameworks to invest time into and which to skip (even if they produce useful subprojects) is a superpower these days.
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    1. iwontberude ◴[18 Jul 25 23:58 UTC] No.44611184[source]▶
    As soon as I saw it was a project by Intel I rolled my eyes and ignored it.
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    2. toshinoriyagi ◴[19 Jul 25 00:13 UTC] No.44611279[source]▶
    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.

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    3. nine_k ◴[19 Jul 25 00:25 UTC] No.44611345[source]▶
    It being a Linux distro, I wonder how soon a viable fork will appear.
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    4. StableAlkyne ◴[19 Jul 25 00:27 UTC] No.44611366[source]▶
    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...

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    5. squarefoot ◴[19 Jul 25 00:30 UTC] No.44611389[source]▶
    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.
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    6. bjconlan ◴[19 Jul 25 00:44 UTC] No.44611479{3}[source]▶
    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...
    7. mikepurvis ◴[19 Jul 25 00:50 UTC] No.44611514[source]▶
    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.

    8. Sunspark ◴[19 Jul 25 01:23 UTC] No.44611684{3}[source]▶
    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?
    9. yakz ◴[19 Jul 25 02:05 UTC] No.44611916[source]▶
    As a user I found it to be pretty buggy; driver issues on Intel NUCs causing instability.
    10. esseph ◴[19 Jul 25 02:15 UTC] No.44611957[source]▶
    Multiple, multiple, multiple rounds of mass firings. Check the news past couple of months.

    Also completely outsourced all marketing.

    11. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[19 Jul 25 03:38 UTC] No.44612380{3}[source]▶
    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.