Getting Started With Intel’s Clear Linux High-Performance Distribution

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Michael Larabel
Dec 20, 2015

For the past year Intel’s Open-Source Technology Center has been working on the Clear Linux Project as a way to accelerate VMs to the point they are as fast as software containers and provide the best Linux support for Intel hardware in various cloud use-cases. As part of doing this, they’ve had to make their distribution lightning fast. Clear Linux though can be stretched outside of traditional cloud use-cases if you just want a lean and mean distribution.

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Michael Larabel

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