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The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History


Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance -- even when it benefited AMD x86_64 processors too

This article is just a recap of the most popular Clear Linux tests and news from over the years to reminisce over the great software innovations that Intel engineers drove into this open-source project. Intel's Clear Linux Has Code In Place To Begin Handling Proprietary Packages Like Chrome & Steam One of the most frequent critiques of Intel's Clear Linux distribution has been its lackluster support in dealing with proprietary/third-party packages like the Google Chrome web browser and Valve's Steam gaming client. But the rather interesting Distrobox can help address that by leveraging Podman or Docker to run other Linux distribution user-space software packages atop.

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