Last July Intel sadly ended their Clear Linux distribution amid cost-cutting measures at the company. Clear Linux for a decade served at the forefront of Linux performance innovations and was consistently the fastest out-of-the-box Linux x86_64 distribution until Intel ended the Linux distribution without any advanced notice for its users. Intel had kept up the ClearLinux.org website online to download the final releases and access other technical content and forum discussions, etc. Sadly, that too was recently taken offline.

Since Clear Linux ceased operations, ClearLinux.org was at least kept online for anyone wanting to download the (no longer supported) ISOs or other technical material hosted on their website. Having that access was still useful for seeing how Clear Linux's performance ended compared to other distributions . Recently I was going to run some benchmarks looking at how the defunct Clear Linux was still running up against the development builds of Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44 and the like... Have the major distributions made any ground in the past half-year for catching up to Intel's flagship distribution? Unfortunately, questions like those can no longer be easily answered as ClearLinux.org was taken offline.

The website was clearly marked as no longer being maintained/end-of-life but unfortunate that its been completely eliminated now as a historical artifact or for those wanting to look back at the final release or technical content like the discussion items and blog posts. At least the archived Clear Linux assets on GitHub remain for those wanting to dive into the packaging scripts or the like and some of the patches/customizations made by the Linux distribution.