GCC 6 Imminent for openSUSE Tumbleweed, openSUSE Leap 42.2 Alpha 2 Coming Soon

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, June 15, 2016, the openSUSE Tumbleweed maintainers have informed the community that the long-anticipated GCC 6 compiler is imminent for the rolling operating system.

openSUSE Tumbleweed received its last snapshot (20160612) on June 14, 2016, which brought several goodies to users of this RPM-based computer operating system, including the recently released Linux 4.6.2 kernel, Mozilla Firefox 47.0, AppStream 0.9.6, and kernel-firmware 20160609.

Also, it appears that previous Tumbleweed snapshots that were released last week brought Git 2.8.4, Wayland 1.11.0, as well as updates to autoyast2, the GStreamer multimedia backend, and several YaST packages. And it now looks like the next snapshot (20160613) will be the last based on GCC 5.

Yes, that’s right, the GCC 6 migration has been completed for openSUSE Tumbleweed, and the next snapshot after snapshot 20160613 will be the one to make GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6 the default for the rolling release operating… (read more)

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