Is this the one that started out as ClarkConnect?
Pretty sure this is Intel’s Linux distro, the one that always benchmarked really well.
Shutting Down Clear Linux OS
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#23Knowing which projects/languages/frameworks to invest time into and which to skip (even if they produce useful subprojects) is a superpower these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
"a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age."
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#24What optimizations did they do that had the biggest effect? can they be brought into the mainline linux kernel and distros?
Mostly it's just compiling everything correctly and getting the most juice out of transparent hugepages.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 a…
It being a Linux distro, I wonder how soon a viable fork will appear.
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...
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#26For background: This was Intel's distro and it's likely that most/all of the folks that were maintaining it are a part of the 5,000 layoffs just announced, bringing the total Intel layoffs to 20,000 people.
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#27Knowing which projects/languages/frameworks to invest time into and which to skip (even if they produce useful subprojects) is a superpower these days.
Always bet against Intel whenever it's something software?
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#28This news, which has been obviously coming for years, also tends to throw doubt on all of Intel's other software projects. Who, for example, would actually invest in exploiting QAT? Even though it clearly offers opportunities for massive gains in the right applications, it also carries the obvious risk that Intel will abandon it.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
As soon as I saw it was a project by Intel I rolled my eyes and ignored it.
Is OpenCV still owned by Intel, or dependent by them (funding, engineers, etc)? There are many good distros out there, but to my knowledge OpenCV has no other FOSS alternative on par with it.
Pretty sure Intel abandoned it like fifteen years ago, and then Willow Garage employed some of the people, now there’s an independent OpenCV Foundation.
But I have no idea who’s actually paying the bills, behind the scenes.
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#30What optimizations did they do that had the biggest effect? can they be brought into the mainline linux kernel and distros?
Mostly it's just compiling everything correctly and getting the most juice out of transparent hugepages.
I could be wrong but I think they used icc (Intel's c compiler) for most/everything?