openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux Switches to GCC 5 as Default Compiler | Linux Today

openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux Switches to GCC 5 as Default Compiler

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Marius Nestor
Jun 16, 2015

openSUSE Tumbleweed is the rolling-release version of the acclaimed openSUSE Linux distribution, where all the bleeding-edge stuff arrives. Last month, Tumbleweed received attractive new Linux technologies like Linux kernel 4.0 and KDE Plasma 5, but today we witness the implementation of GCC 5 as the default compiler, which will make the distribution the first rolling-release to have GCC 5 as a default compiler, according to DistroWatch’s package tracker.

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Marius Nestor

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