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Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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124 points todsacerdoti | 5 comments | 18 Jul 25 23:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.651s | source
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etaioinshrdlu ◴[19 Jul 25 00:29 UTC] No.44611376[source]▶
What optimizations did they do that had the biggest effect? can they be brought into the mainline linux kernel and distros?
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1. jeffbee ◴[19 Jul 25 00:43 UTC] No.44611470[source]▶
Mostly it's just compiling everything correctly and getting the most juice out of transparent hugepages.
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2. temp0826 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:50 UTC] No.44611515[source]▶
I could be wrong but I think they used icc (Intel's c compiler) for most/everything?
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3. bjconlan ◴[19 Jul 25 00:52 UTC] No.44611525[source]▶
Yeah, but there is something else here too... I used cachy for a heartbeat and it advertises the same benefits; it just felt slower (notably on boot) Maybe it was just all the graphical load screens.

There's something clear had that made it feel modern, familiar and boring (which might not be for everyone) 90% of my tasks were in vscode devcontainers so kept things simple and out of the system for the most part.

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4. jeffbee ◴[19 Jul 25 00:57 UTC] No.44611544[source]▶
I don't think they build any part of it with icc, the world's worst compiler. They do not even offer icc as a package.
5. etaioinshrdlu ◴[19 Jul 25 00:58 UTC] No.44611550[source]▶
Sounds like bloat removal and minimalism.