Intel will terminate itsoptimizationClear Linux distribution for performance. In the past ten years,ClearLinuxThe operating system shows its performance potential out of the box on x86_64 hardware, showing extremely good performance not only on Intel platforms, but even on AMD x86_64. But with Intel's cost cutting and layoffs, Clear Linux is about to end development.
Intel issued a statement announcing that Clear Linux will be discontinued:
After years of innovation and community collaboration, we are ending support for Clear Linux OS. Intel will immediately stop providing security patches, updates, or maintenance for Clear Linux OS, and the Clear Linux OS GitHub repository will be archived in read-only mode. Therefore, if you are currently using Clear Linux OS, we strongly recommend that you plan a migration to another actively maintained Linux distribution as soon as possible to ensure continued security and stability.Rest assured that Intel continues to invest heavily in the Linux ecosystem and actively supports and contributes to various open source projects and Linux distributions to support and optimize Intel hardware.
A heartfelt thank you to every developer, user, and contributor who has helped make Clear Linux OS possible over the past decade. Your feedback and contributions are extremely valuable.
In recent years, there have been multiple rumors that Clear Linux may be at risk of being axed, as Intel cuts costs and attempts to emphasize the out-of-the-box performance of mainstream Linux distributions and push more of its work upstream. But today, this matter finally got official confirmation.
ClearLinux provides many great out-of-the-box performance optimizations for Linux systems and showcases years of improvements to packaged systems through profile boot optimizations/link-time optimizations, various kernel tweaks, and other innovative techniques. At least systems like CachyOS already employ some of these optimizations.
Intel engineers are also working with other major Linux distributions to improve the performance of their Linux distributions. But those details and whether they will step up their efforts remain unclear.
A very prominent Linux engineer left Intel this week, the upstream Linux driver has now gone unmaintained due to the departure of another engineer, and several other Intel software engineers working on open source/Linux have also left as part of Intel's latest reorganization.