All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS

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After years of innovation and community collaboration, we’re ending support for Clear Linux OS. Effective immediately, Intel will no longer provide security patches, updates, or maintenance for Clear Linux OS, and the Clear Linux OS GitHub repository will be archived in read-only mode. So, if you’re currently using Clear Linux OS, we strongly recommend planning your migration to another actively maintained Linux distribution as soon as possible to ensure ongoing security and stability.

Rest assured that Intel remains deeply invested in the Linux ecosystem, actively supporting and contributing to various open-source projects and Linux distributions to enable and optimize for Intel hardware.

A heartfelt thank you to every developer, user, and contributor who helped shape Clear Linux OS over the last 10 years. Your feedback and contributions have been invaluable.

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Thanks for the wonderful memories. We definitely miss Clear Linux!

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gonna miss autospec, godspeed

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Thanks so much, I learned a lot from this project

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Many, many happy memories working with a wonderful team of engineers. I hope our paths cross again in future.

Chris

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Darn… Can’t say I didn’t expect this but… Darn.

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Thanks for the memories folks, it’s been an honor and pleasure!

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It’s truly a shame that we have to say goodbye.

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I’ve been using ClearLinux for all my projects, and it’s been such a reliable system for me. I absolutely loved it. It really stood out because of its elegance, which is something that most software projects miss. It was in it’s own way a masterpiece.

Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. You are awesome people!

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I guess there is no other distro optimized especially for Intel software anymore right?

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Effective immediately, Intel will no longer provide security patches,

Seriously? No grace period, users are supposed to instantly migrate? That’s not very serious honestly.

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Finally i get a thank you from you, Arjan.

I have been here for 6 years exactly, gave over a 1000 likes to everyone who contributed in some way, but was always surprised why you never thought of giving just one like to anyone here in the forum. Could you at least give your opinion on that ?

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@arjan, please clarify: is CL immutable or stateless? Or both?

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Aww crap, this is inconvenient. I’m going to have to migrate my server ASAP.

I really liked Clear Linux and the way it handled configuration, it’s such a shame it’s going away now. Could it possibly be handed over as a community-run project?

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I was already compiling everything from source anyway.

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Looks like the name is not officially trademarked, so that won’t be the issue.

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I would like to thank everyone on this list for the last years together :

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And… also all the forum members and lurkers who are not on the list :wink:

You were all great… we will meet again someday, in other projects

B U S I N U X

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So sad to hear this news, by far this was the most well produced Linux operating system to date, most reliable bleeding edge system, in my 5 or 6 years running this item became so fault tolerant even my dumb ass couldn’t break it, it also became so simple to use and learn. It made something special out of Linux that no other operating system out there could fill…

To everyone of you who made this OS, you made the best one hands down, it would be missed… The quality of the experience to its stability will be hard to replace… I hope you are all well looked after for your efforts in this project, you are hands down the best OS developers out there, thank you so much for everything you all did.

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Same, I’ve been spoiled by stateless, and the current best alternative is going to be an immutable distro. I seriously don’t want to move…

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It is a complete Windows/Mac move. Not Linux. CL developers aren’t to blame here, I blame Intel company.

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