Interesting project from Intel - the Clear Linux Project
From their website:
The Clear Linux Project for Intel® Architecture is a distribution built for various Cloud use cases. We want to showcase the best of Intel Architecture technology, from low-level kernel features to complex applications that span across the entire OS stack. We're putting emphasis on Power and Performance optimizations throughout the operating system as a whole.
Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture is focused on the Cloud. Our aim was not to make yet another general-purpose Linux distribution; sometimes lean-and-fast is better than big-and-universal. So while we include many software components from the OpenStack* Foundation, we chose, for example, not to include a GUI or printing support.
Note - this is for power users. There is no graphic user interface. Looks interesting - something to consider if I need to set up a server. It beats out a lot of the other distributions in most benchmarks.