Intel's Clear Linux ...

[Matt Graham]

On 2019-05-15 09:56, Matt Graham wrote:
> On 2019-05-13 18:49, Joe Lowder wrote:
>> Intel's Clear Linux ...
>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/05/13/its-time-to-pay-attention-to-intels-clear-linux-os-project/#7d80a96f5c49
> If you want to run a GUI, it requires an Intel graphics card.

That's what their website said.  However, running the "desktop" LiveCD 
image gave me a GUI even though I have a Radeon card.  So it'll run on 
an AMD CPU and GPU.

The main problem that I ran into was that the version that I retrieved 
refused to see any of my USB 1.1 devices.  It didn't even list the root 
hubs when I did "lsusb".  Guess what, most people's mice and keyboards 
these days are USB 1.1.  (I am a dinosaur in that my keyboard's still 
PS/2.)  Maybe it was the OHCI chipset that was throwing it off.  Intel 
boards usually use UHCI, so they may have said that OHCI is Not Our 
Problem.  It's 2 modules that total 56K, good grief, people.  The last 
time anyone had to worry about which USB chipset they had was in the 
early 2000s.  The final straw?  Shift+NumLock didn't do 
Pointer_EnableKeys.  The GUI wasn't worth exploring with no way to 
navigate any menus.

If I have time later, I may see if they actually have the modules in 
/lib/modules and didn't load them due to arrogance and/or hubris.  But 
AFAICT, Clear Linux is not ready for prime time right now.

> I may try their live CD on the laptop at some point

Nope, my laptop is too old to run this as its comparatively ancient i3 
CPU doesn't support the AES instructions.

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