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Intel Shuts Down "Clear Linux" Distribution Development  TechPowerUp

Intel shuts down Clear Linux OS, its high-performance Linux distribution  VideoCardz.com

While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind that AUR stands for the Arch User Repository. These user packages aren't always the best and rarely can be done with malicious intent as shown this week with an advisory over several malicious browser packages being briefly pedaled through AUR...

Intel Discontinues Clear Linux  [H]ard|Forum

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The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linux is now being sunset...

Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux  Phoronix

Arch Linux pulls AUR packages that installed Chaos RAT malware  BleepingComputer

As we await to see what Linus Torvalds will end up doing about the Bcachefs file-system come Linux 6.17, for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle he continues to honor the Bcachefs pull requests containing fixes...

Lossless Scaling is my holdout Windows app, and it's already great on Linux  XDA

Zen Browser updates to latest Firefox version and fixes Linux performance bugs  Notebookcheck

Linux Surpasses 5% Market Share in the United States for the First Time  eTeknix

The Ubuntu 25.10 images geared for the Raspberry Pi will be much more lean than current Ubuntu Linux releases for the Raspberry Pi thanks to changes merged this week...

Ubuntu 25.10 Raspberry Pi Images Will Be Much More Lean  Phoronix

Linux breaks a new record for US market share as people presumably flee Windows for its open-source rival  XDA

Back in May was the announcement by AMD of ROCm-DS as a new toolkit geared for real-world data science problems with various helpers to accelerate data processing on Instinct accelerators. AMD today is complementing ROCm-DS by announcing ROCm-LS and hipCIM...

Intel is out today with its monthly feature update to the Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL API support on Windows and Linux systems. This month there is new hardware support, more performance optimizations, and some new features...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.27.34303.5 Brings Support For Wildcat Lake & BMG G31  Phoronix

This new Windows 11 clone is actually Linux and runs faster on your old PC -- get it now  BetaNews

Next-generation brick building sandbox Brickadia is out with Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux