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Clear Linux* Project for Intel® Architecture

The Clear Linux* Project for Intel® Architecture is a distribution built for cloud and IoT use cases. We want to showcase the best of Intel architecture technology and performance, from low-level kernel features to complex applications that span across the entire OS stack. We're putting emphasis on Power and Performance optimizations throughout the operating system as a whole.

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Get started

Get started with step-by-step instructions to download and run Clear Linux on bare metal, under a virtual machine, or by way of a live image.

Create and launch Clear Linux from Amazon Web Services

Walk through creating and launching a Clear Linux AMI instance from the AWS console.

Clear Linux* OS on Microsoft* Azure*

Learn about the three offerings of Clear Linux within the Azure Marketplace and how to create them using the Azure Portal or by using the Azure Command Line tools.

Use mixer tool

Use the mixer tool to compose an operating system for specific use cases.

Machine learning tutorial

Let us guide you through installing and using a Jupyter* notebook to set up and execute a TensorFlow* machine learning example using the MNIST data for handwriting recognition using the Clear Linux* OS for Intel® Architecture.

WordPress* use case tutorial

Let us guide you to a fully realized WordPress website using Clear Linux* OS for Intel® Architecture.

Use Flatpak* to install applications on Clear Linux* OS for Intel® Architecture

Find all the required steps to install Flatpak as well as download, install, and run LibreOffice on Clear Linux.

Multi-boot Clear Linux with other operating systems

Learn how to modify the boot loader for Clear Linux to work with other operating systems.

About the project

Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture is focused on the Cloud. Our aim was not to make yet another general-purpose Linux distribution; sometimes lean-and-fast is better than big-and-universal.

While we do our best to describe marquee technologies on this website, there are many smaller optimizations and configurations to explore. We invite anyone with an interest in the Cloud to take a look and give it a spin.

Features overview

Automatic Feedback-Directed Optimizer

Use a sampling-based profile to drive feedback-directed optimizations.

Autoproxy

Use Clear Linux inside any proxy environment without having to manually configure the proxies.

Debug anytime with the FUSE file system tool

Access complete debug information, all the time, and without system resources using up all of your disk space.

Function Multi-Versioning

Develop software that works in multiple platforms and can run anywhere.

Mixer tool

Compose an OS for a very specific use case.

Software Update

Update the Clear Linux way and utilize bundles.

Stateless

Operate without any custom configuration, for example, a generic host with an empty /etc directory. Stateless systems strictly separate the OS configuration, the per-system configuration, and the VT user-data stored on that system.

Telemetry

Rapidly detect and respond to quality issues in the field.

Kata Containers, The Next Evolution of Clear Containers

05 Dec, 2017 By Clear Linux* Team & filed under Power and Performance

Kata Containers is launching as an open source project under the OpenStack Foundation, as part of its recently expanded charter to host projects beyond core OpenStack.

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Intel® Clear Containers: Now part of Kata Containers

05 Dec, 2017 By Clear Linux* Team & filed under Power and Performance

As announced on December 5, 2017, The Intel Clear Containers project has joined the Kata Containers project, under open governance at the OpenStack* Foundation.

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Announcing Intel® Clear Containers 3.0!

20 Sep, 2017 By alleelan & filed under Power and Performance

The Clear Containers team has been working on the next generation of Clear Containers and today that work culminates in the release of Clear Containers 3.0!

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Machine learning on Clear Linux tutorial

04 Aug, 2017 By rcaballeromx & filed under Power and Performance

When learning computer programming languages, the first example tutorial given is usually ‘hello world’. Similarly, to learn about machine learning, the first example is often image recognition of handwritten numbers based on the MNIST dataset.

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GCC 7 - The importance of a cutting-edge compiler

16 May, 2017 By Clear Linux* Team & filed under Power and Performance

GCC 7* was released last May 2nd and the Clear Linux* Project for Intel® Architecture already uses it as the default C compiler.

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