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Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

(community.clearlinux.org)
124 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 18 Jul 25 23:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.445s | source
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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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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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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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1. 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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2. bjconlan ◴[19 Jul 25 00:44 UTC] No.44611479[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...
3. Sunspark ◴[19 Jul 25 01:23 UTC] No.44611684[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?
4. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[19 Jul 25 03:38 UTC] No.44612380[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.