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GCC 16 Switches To Using C++20 Standard By Default

Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default C++ standard when not otherwise set, that change has indeed happened. Merged now is the change defaulting to C++20 (well, the GNU++20 dialect) rather than C++17/GNU++17 when not otherwise specified when compiling C++ code...

LWN.net

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kdeconnect, libssh, and samba), Fedora (7zip, docker-buildkit, and docker-buildx), Oracle (bind, buildah, cups, delve and golang, expat, firefox, gimp, go-rpm-macros, haproxy, kernel, lasso, libsoup, libtiff, mingw-expat, openssl, podman, python-kdcproxy, qt5-qt3d, runc, squid, thunderbird, tigervnc, valkey, webkit2gtk3, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), SUSE (buildah, cloudflared, containerd, expat, firefox, gnutls, helm, kernel, libxslt, mysql-connector-java, ongres-scram, openbao, openexr, openssh, podman, python311, python312, ruby2.5, rubygem-rack, runc, samba, sssd, tiff, unbound, and yelp), and Ubuntu (edk2, ffmpeg, h2o, python3.13, rust-openssl, and valkey).

Phoronix

Intel Battlemage Graphics Enjoyed Nice GPU Compute Performance Gains In 2025

In addition to Intel Arrow Lake desktop performance evolving nicely on Linux over the course of 2025, the Intel Arc B-Series graphics that launched last December with the Arc B580 have evolved quite nicely too with their open-source driver stack. With it coming up on one year since the Arc B580 launch, here is a look at how the GPU compute performance has evolved since that point. Similar Intel Arc B580 Linux graphics comparisons are also coming up in a follow-up comparison on Phoronix.

Foss Force

openSUSE Tumbleweed: Built to Last, Built to Change, Built for Openness

For Thanksgivingโ€™s Distro of the Week, we put openSUSE Tumbleweed Xfce through install, configuration, and multitasking tests to see how its classic tools and newer additions hold up in everyday use. The post openSUSE Tumbleweed: Built to Last, Built to Change, Built for Openness appeared first on FOSS Force.

Linux.org

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fun bit of Linux history: On Thanksgiving Day 2011, Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.2-rc3 kernel with this delicious recipe: "One quarter arch updates, two quarters drivers, and one quarter random changes. Shake vigorously and serve cold.." He even joked about the timing, saying "And maybe the rest of the world can try to make up for the lack of any expected US participation? Hmm?" while Americans were in their food-induced turkey comas. November has been a significant month in Linux... https://www.linux.org/threads/happy-thanksgiving.59185/

Phoronix

Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream

For those Linux desktop users in the US needing another reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving, a huge and long-awaited accomplishment is ready for merging to the kernel: the Color Pipeline API that is important for HDR is ready for merging! As of last night the code is queued in DRM-Misc-Next for this years-in-the-making effort...