The Clear Linux Project for Intel Architecture is a project that is building a Linux OS distribution for various cloud use cases. The goal of Clear Linux OS is to showcase the best of Intel Architecture technology, from low-level kernel features to more complex items that span across the entire operating system stack.
Don’t dismiss it – Intel is doing a lot of interesting under-the-hood stuff with this one.
How is this any different to what CoreOS is already doing?
It’s different because it’s an Intel promotional project for promoting Intel products.
I don’t see why you should be so dismissive of a company designing products based on other products in their portfolio. Do you criticize MS for developing Office for Windows, or Apple for developing OS X for their computers? I for one support our Intel brethren for (hopefully) developing a highly optimized OS for their own processors. Maybe it might teach others who use Intel’s products a thing or two…
How was I being dismissive? I was repeating what the summary said. It’s dismissive to repeat facts now?
Looks like a dejavu :
if(check_cpuid(“GeunuineIntel”) == true)
While the parent was not being dismissive, I’m not as comfortable having companies restricted to a particular sub architecture. Not even x86_64 specific, but intel x86_64 specific. In general Linux is mostly agnostic about architecture, which is a good thing.
But really, if its just a showcase for intel, without any real plan to commercialize, that’s cool. Many of the intel specific extensions to x86 eventually end up in AMD.
clr is different from coreos. in fact, it uses parts of coreos (and coreos could use/will most likely use parts of clr).
clr uses vt-x to its fullest, and DAX for disk access. it also uses coreo’s rkt. The result is a fast-booting, low-memory-footprint, fast IO VM that you can use like a container, only more secure, isolated. (bonus points: isolated networking is faster than with docker)
Note: intel is the primary kernel contributor. nobody contributes more than intel, so i’d get off your high horses. vt-x also works on AMD.
I wonder how it’ll run on Opteron CPUs…
I don’t suppose they will check or care… Nor do I feel they Should.
If I’m optimizing the 3rd party software for my hardware that’s all I care about. If AMD want to optimize linux for their CPU, AMD are More than welcome to spend time (and money) doing so. But it is unreasonable to expect Intel to do it for them.
Provided there is a difference between optimizing for your hardware and crippling the software for the third party hardware.
I wonder who buys opterons these days …
I was always intrigued how AMD often presented clever architectures that should have outmatched their competitors, yet Intel almost always replied with ‘dirty’ hacks that indeed rendered their processor faster, if not more power efficient.
If only AMD drivers were better and more ‘open’, at least they would have a positive point :/
BTW, three of my five PCs have AMD processor in them (Athlon XP, A8-3500M, E350) the other two are C7 and Atom 330
Yeah, I’m not a power monger…
It seems like AMD is less expensive for desktops, but the performance has much to be desired. I just resorted to buying my first Intel desktop processor since 1998. I couldn’t justify the outlay for an AMD, given the performance.
Maybe it runs on Itanium….
Hahaha, just kidding. Nothing runs on Itanium and no one runs Itanium.
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