User:0mtwb9gd5wx/Clear Linux/DRAFT

Clear Linux* OS is a Linux distribution, developed and maintained on Intel's 01.org open-source platform, and optimized for Intel's microprocessors with an emphasis on performance and security. Its optimizations also affect AMD-systems. Clear Linux OS follows a rolling release model. Clear Linux OS is not intended to be a general-purpose Linux distribution; it is designed to be used by IT professionals for DevOps, AI application development, cloud computing, and containers. It currently is the fastest available Linux implementation. Clear Linux* OS has been referred to, in the literature, as Clear Linux OS, Clear Linux*, Clear Linux.

History
In 2015, Intel introduced Clear Linux* OS at OpenStack Summit 2015, Vancouver initially, it was limited to cloud usage. Intel began the Clear Containers project to address container security. In 2015, originally, Clear Linux* OS was deployed as a single monolithic unit. Clear Linux supports Sandy Bridge CPUs and later, including 2nd Generation Intel® Core™, Intel® Xeon® Processor E3, Intel® Atom™ processor C2000 (Q3 2013 or later), Intel® Atom™ processor E3800 (Q4 2013 or later). Clear Linux OS is available via Microsoft Azure marketplace, and Amazon Web Services marketplace. In May 2019, Clear Linux OS released a new Desktop Installer and started a Help Forum.

Features

 * reference stacks to install Clear Linux OS images that are optimized and tested together for specific use-cases
 * "stateless": strict separation between User data and System config files
 * A misconfigured system will still boot correctly, then perform a factory reset so you can reconfigure.


 * delta updates - minimizes update size
 * Bundles: a group of "upstream open-source projects and packages needed to enable a use-case or capability"
 * swupd: "bundle", update and package manager for Clear Linux OS
 * mixer: custom, DIY Clear Linux OS release creator
 * Flatpak, the app is included as part of the desktop bundle, and apps for Flatpak are documented
 * 3rd-party software from outside of Clear Linux OS:
 * Mixer can create 3rd-party bundles out of anything you want without packaging it into an RPM.
 * swupd “3rd-party” subcommand manages 3rd-party bundles.
 * Containers: open source back-end technology that plugs into Docker, Kubernetes and CoreOS rkt (Rocket)
 * Cloud Integrated Advanced Orchestrator (ciao): lightweight, fully TLS-based, minimal config workload scheduler designer
 * Telemetry: does not collect any user data, records system events like errors, Design, app compatibility, data minimization and reports to Clear Linux OS development. This can be disabled.
 * Autproxy support: can discover Proxy Auto-config script to resolve proxy for connections.
 * Function Multiversioning: from runtime CPU architecture detection allows architecture optimization
 * All debug information is available all the time.

"'Clear Linux is designed for a Linux distribution maintainer and provides tools allowing the maintainer to directly consume upstream projects, add them to their distribution, and maintain the distribution on an update server that keeps all the connected systems updated.'"

"'In Clear Linux, the operating system is completely made up of bundles. When one bundle is updated, it creates a completely new version of the OS. This new OS version is built and tested as a whole – there is no extra package to be added later. For the distributor, this makes updating simpler and guarantees that the OS update will work and will not brick the system. It is also the reason that updates need to be easier and happen more frequently.'"

Competitors
For containers :


 * CoreOS
 * RancherOS
 * Snappy Ubuntu Core
 * RedHat Project Atomic
 * Mesosphere DC/OS
 * VMware Project Photon OS
 * Windows Nano Server
 * SmartOS
 * ResinOS
 * openSUSE MicroOS
 * Nano Server

Name
Clear Linux was referred to in early documentation as Clear Linux OS, later as Clear Linux* OS with a corresponding footnote acknowledging that the rights to "Linux" may be possessed by others.