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Bravo Intel, they are joining the future of VM's. Should be interesting!

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Intel has released Clear Linux - their very lean distribution aimed at taking the best advantage of Intel's own technologies and being a very convenient base for various servers.

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.

The system is stateless meaning it will operate without any custom configuration ( /etc files) and separates configuration files of the operating system and the various programs making them easy to migrate.

The distribution is iterating rapidly with several releases a day and is available for download in various virtualization containers as well as a conventional installer and by default weighs in at 1GB, resulting in lightning fast boot times even compared to other distributions without graphical interfaces.

 

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Now to test if this runs on AMD...

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The software update section of the homepage is interesting. It's a little like like CodeDeploy, where the whole of the software is updated at once, except on the OS level.

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Yup. It was only a matter of time. IBM and Oracle have their own proprietary versions for their big-iron scale-up servers. This will be for squeezing the absolute best performance from Knight's Landing. I wonder if they'll open source any part of it.

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Update on that AMD test thing:

The compression on their live image package is amazing... from 132MB in the .xz package to over 5GB when unpacked...

Still can't do the test since I don't have a free flash drive right now...

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​...Kind of.

​Linux is just a kernel, you know. For all we know, Intel wouldn't be making major changes to the kernel, and instead focusing on the userland a la Android.

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​Android does not have to be libre (even though it is). In fact, Android is licensed under the Apache license, as it does not use the GNU userland. This is how you have so many proprietary spinoffs (HTC Sense, Samsung Touchwiz, etc.), and all they have to do is release the source code for the kernel.

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Now to test if this runs on AMD...

it probably will. See no reason why it wont. drivers would have to be manually installed though likely.

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Errrm... It's Linux.

Linux is licensed under GPL. Meaning it cannot not be open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

Not true. IBM has a locked down, proprietary version of it. Anyone can make a proprietary, locked down version of Linux.

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I'd like to know what the repos look like - might give it a spin one of these days

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Not true. IBM has a locked down, proprietary version of it. Anyone can make a proprietary, locked down version of Linux.

Do you mean AIX? Cause AIX came out in 1986 (5 years before Linux) and is based on System V, which in turn came out in 1983.

Also, if IBM have a proprietary version, why would they be among the top 10 contributors to the open source kernel?

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Do you mean AIX? Cause AIX came out in 1986 (5 years before Linux).

Also, if IBM have a proprietary version, why would they be among the top 10 contributors to the open source kernel?

 

The kernel alone is not the OS. Second, AIX was completely scrapped and rebuilt ground-up from Linux in the mid 90s.

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The kernel alone is not the OS.

 

Funny, I swear I can remember having an argument with you, where you said that it's stupid to call Linux 'GNU/Linux' cause the kernel is the operating system.

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Funny, I swear I can remember having an argument with you, where you said that it's stupid to call Linux 'GNU/Linux' cause the kernel is the operating system.

 

My argument was that GNU is a toolchain that can be attached or detached from the OS with no consequence, and thus Stallman wanting it to be called GNU/Linux is arrogant.

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GNU is a toolchain that can be attached or detached from the OS with no consequence

I don't know about that. Just off the top of my head, detaching GCC, GRUB and grep from my OS would have very noticeable consequences.

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I don't know about that. Just off the top of my head, detaching GCC, GRUB and grep from my OS would have very noticeable consequences.

 

The OS can load without GRUB. As for GCC, unless you're dynamically linking to uncompiled code libraries (which, why would you?), it shouldn't matter at all.

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is there a GUI?  I'm too much of a noob to use anything without a GUI...  if there is I might try it...

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is there a GUI?  I'm too much of a noob to use anything without a GUI...  if there is I might try it...

 

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. So while we include many software components from the OpenStack* Foundation, we chose, for example, not to include a GUI or printing support.

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Update on that AMD trial thing:

For some reason their live image won't work on both of my machines... and the boot sector couldn't be recognized...

Can anyone confirm what's wrong?

I used Rufus v. 2.5 to build the bootable USB drive for it...

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CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Yup. It was only a matter of time. IBM and Oracle have their own proprietary versions for their big-iron scale-up servers. This will be for squeezing the absolute best performance from Knight's Landing. I wonder if they'll open source any part of it.

Google too. They have their own kernel and runtime for it too and have had this for several years.

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Bravo Intel, they are joining the future of VM's. Should be interesting!

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