Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Intel is firing on all cylinders with its Clear Linux OS Project.

A lot of that stuff will probably be worked out in the next year or so. At one time, daily use of any Linux distro looked like that. Getting anything going, ever, was a constant struggle. Once you had ...

As much as I extol the variety that Linux offers, I’ve done a bad job of enjoying it. Sadly, playing with new distributions usually gets bested by competing priorities. Not today. A browse through ...

Intel's Clear Linux Project has been on my radar for months, mainly because of its sheer dominance over traditional Linux distributions -- and often Windows -- when it comes to performance. From time ...

Intel has axed Clear Linux, its high-performance Linux distro that spent the last decade squeezing every drop of speed out of x86-64 chips. A Clear Linux official said: “After years of innovation and ...

At only a few years old, Clear Linux hasn’t been around long enough to start appearing in top-ten distro lists all over, but it’s an OS that offers enough uniqueness to warrant a fair look. At a basic ...

Intel may not come quickly to mind if you were asked to name an open-source company but the chip manufacturer wants to change that. At its Open Source Technology Summit (OSTS), Intel introduced a ...

Microsoft is adding support for yet another Linux distribution on Azure. On January 18, Microsoft announced Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture is available in the Azure Marketplace. Clear Linux OS ...

For the past 16 years, Intel has held an annual open-source-focused technology summit called, appropriately enough, the Open Source Technology Summit. If you're wondering why you've never heard of the ...