14 DAY TRIAL // Softpedia has been informed by the Clear Linux developer about the availability of the Linux kernel-based operating system's first newsletter, which notifies users of the latest GNU/Linux technologies implemented during the week that passed.
Entitled This Week in Clear Linux, the first installation announces to the Clear Linux community that the Linux kernel-based operating system designed specifically for Intel architecture received the latest Linux 4.6.4 and 4.4.15 LTS kernels, the Mesa 3D Graphics Library 12.0.0, and Rust language 1.10.0.
"The kernels in Clear Linux were updated to the latest stable versions, kernel 4.6.4 for the normal kernels, and 4.4.15 for the LTS kernels. As usual, the stable kernels contain 'important updates,'" said Eva P. Hutanu. "All of the Clear Linux package sources are now available as git trees."
Caffe machine learning framework performance improved by 10%
Also implemented this week in Clear Linux are improvements to the Caffe machine learning framework performance, which appears to be 10% faster thanks to the updated linear algebra library, as well as an increase in the use of AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) and SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) vector instructions.
Other than that, it would appear that a performance issue was discovered by Michael Larabel from Phoronix in the graphics stack of Clear Linux during a 7-Way Linux Distribution Comparison For Summer 2016 benchmark compiled by the renowned GNU/Linux author.
The bug was found by the Clear Linux developers in the XFWM4 compositor of the Xfce desktop environment and immediately released a temporary workaround. They are currently in the search of a permanent solution for the issue, which might be implemented in the coming weeks, hopefully just before the next This Week in Clear Linux newsletter.