OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Will Very Soon Have GCC 6

Written by Michael Larabel in SUSE on 15 June 2016 at 08:56 AM EDT. 11 Comments
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OpenSUSE's Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution will soon join the likes of Fedora 24 and Clear Linux as being an early adopter of the new GCC 6.

Tumbleweed's 20160613 snapshot was the last that is based on GCC 5 with the developers working to rebase to GCC 6. The exact date of the GCC 6.1 landing has yet to be determined.

More details on the latest state of Tumbleweed can be found via news.opensuse.org.
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