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Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends development and support, effective immediately


It is clearly dead.

The company announced that it will no longer maintain or update the OS, marking the end of a decade-long effort to optimize Linux performance aggressively. Clear Linux stood out for its aggressive out-of-box performance tuning and consistently strong results not just on Intel hardware, but also on AMD platforms, as noted by Phoronix. Thirdly, Clear Linux applied profile-guided (PGO) and link-time optimizations (LTO) system-wide — including the kernel, libraries, and user utilities — enabling it to streamline execution paths based on real workloads and reduce binary size and overhead.

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