openSUSE Project’s Marcus Meissner announced that openSUSE Tumbleweed now ships with binary packages compiled with PIE support by default, which he says that it could be achieved by a GCC defaults override in the “gcc-PIE” package. PIE is a security feature that would make attacks much harder on GNU/Linux systems. So make sure you always keep your openSUSE Tumbleweed installations up-to-date to receive the most recent security improvements and bug fixes. It looks like other popular GNU/Linux distributions are adopting PIE for their binaries, such as the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system.