Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) to Come with GCC 5, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Python 3

Posted by hanuca on May 11, 2015 4:30 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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During the Ubuntu Online Summit (UOS) event for Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) that took place early this week, between May 5-7 on the UbuntuOnAir channel, the Ubuntu developers discussed the possibility of switching to the GCC 5 compiler by default.

At the moment, Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet), the latest stable release of the Ubuntu Linux operating system comes with GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 4.9.2, so the decision to switch to GCC 5.0 as the default compiler was taken because the system must be prepared for the next LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu.

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