• Ph chevron_right

      GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May 2026

    GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads for GCC 16 over GCC 15. Continued testing of the new GCC 16 compiler has continued to show overall better performance of the resulting binaries than using GCC 15 on the same hardware and same compiler flags. That led many to wonder about the GCC 16 performance up against the latest LLVM/Clang open-source compiler, which is the focus of today's benchmarking showdown.
    • Ph chevron_right

      Intel Compute Runtime 26.18.38308.1 Brings More Xe3P Enableement, Nova Lake P Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May 2026

    Intel on Tuesday released a new version of their open-source Compute Runtime for OpenCL and Level Zero support across their integrated and discrete graphics hardware...
    • Ph chevron_right

      Discord Taunts "Year Of The Linux Desktop" With Linux Client Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May 2026

    Discord, the popular instant messaging and VoIP communication platform, announced some significant improvements being made to their Linux client...
    • Ph chevron_right

      NetBSD 11.0-RC4 Comes As Hopefully The Last Release Candidate

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May 2026

    In addition to FreeBSD 15.1 releasing in the coming weeks, NetBSD 11.0 is also just around the corner as another prominent and major BSD update. NetBSD 11.0-RC4 is now available for last minute testing with this hoping to be the final release candidate...
    • Ph chevron_right

      KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May 2026

    KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack...
    • Ph chevron_right

      Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May 2026

    Wine's Wayland native driver has taken another step forward with now supporting the pointer warp "wp_pointer_warp_v1" protocol...
    • Ph chevron_right

      OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released With Linux 7.0 Kernel Support, Many Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May 2026

    For those making use of OpenZFS on Linux or FreeBSD, OpenZFS 2.4.2 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation...
    • Ph chevron_right

      FreeBSD 15.2 Will Aim For The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May 2026

    FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn't end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2...
    • Ph chevron_right

      AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May 2026

    Today's Patch Tuesday is a busier one than normal for the quarter. Both AMD and Intel have rolled out new updates for Linux customers among other security disclosures today. Thankfully though the vulnerabilities don't appear to be too widespread or impactful...