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The current default version of gcc in Ubuntu 20.04LTS is 9.3. Will this change over the lifetime of 20.04LTS?

I'm writing a book that looks at the assembly language generated for C and C++ code by...

The older compilation used gcc 4.7.0, the newer one 7.2.0. I'm not positive about the date of the older one, but it was 3 - 5 years ago.

-S to get the assembly language and -O0 for no...

I have a simple Hello world C program that uses write:



#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
{

write(STDOUT_FILENO, "Hello world.\n", 13);

I suppose "knowledge" would be a better word than "skill." I'm learning more about using the various options of apt. My typing skill is already pretty good. I learned touch typing over sixty years...

Thanks for the tips, oldfred.

Thanks for your detailed remarks, oldfred. I agree with you that it's probably best to use grub as my primary boot.

When I first installed Windows 8, I overwrote the Windows boot loader with grub....

Yes, I can set the drive with Ubuntu as first in the BIOS, and then use grub to select the OS I want. If I set the Windows drive as first boot, then I use the Windows boot manager, but selecting...

Thank you, deadflowr. I decided to use apt-get, which required me to hone my skills a bit (a good thing).

I had previously used the xhost xi:localuser:root hack to allow me to run synaptic. My...

Thank you, oldfred. I ran boot-info. The info is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/25904707/.

Most of the software I need to install (e.g., texlive, gnuplot, git, etc., etc.) is not available through "Ubuntu Software." Synaptic no longer works in 17.10 without using a hack that opens a...

I have Windows 10 on one internal disk, Ubuntu 17.10 on another internal disk. Mine is an BIOS system. I can change the disk boot order in the BIOS and boot into either Windows 10 or Ubuntu 17.10.
...

For over ten years I have been writing assembly language functions and linking them with gcc with no problem. (The reason I use gcc instead of ld is to automatically link in the C libraries.) I just...

I did a fresh 17.04 install by first doing a fresh 16.04 LTS install. It would not allow me to update directly to 17.04. I had to do 16.10 then 17.04. As I recall, I had to do this when I went from...

This should not be the problem I'm having since the entire root partition ('/' is withing the first 110 GB of the disk. My '/home' partition comes after that.

I guess I'll try installing 16.04 and...

Another piece of information here. When I boot into the grub> prompt, the ls command gives me "Error 14: Filesystem compatibility error, cannot read whole file"

Thank you, oldfred, for taking the time to look at this.

I want to maintain the Windows bootloader because it offers many tools for debugging Windows issues, which grub does not. I have been using...

Thank you, yancek. I ran Boot-Repair, which generated http://paste2.org/Cjv3ywmh

Running Windows 10 and Ubuntu on an old Acer 5620 laptop. I've been running both on it for years. I did a fresh install of 17.04 over my 16.10. Now when I try to boot into Ubuntu, it hangs with the...

Thank you, mc4man. It still shows up on the community help page, which was updated 2017-03-27. Seems like free community help sites are almost as bad as the commercial support we pay for. ;-)

I'm running gedit 3.22.0 on Ubuntu 16.10. Edit->Preferences->Plugins does not show the Tag List plugin. The documentation, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/gedit#Plugins, shows it, but it's not on...

I finally got 16.10 to install. I do not know what the problem was.

Here is what I did:
1. Reinstalled 16.04, which went smoothly.
2. Performed a version upgrade, which failed.
3. Did another...

Thanks for the suggestions, ubfan1.

Hmm, I don't recall the message(s) before the grub prompt. It's too late for me to retry the installation tonight. I'll give it another try tomorrow and pay...

Home-build desktop system. I've been running Ubuntu (dual boot with Windows) since it was built six years ago. I like doing fresh installs to get rid of the junk that accumulates. The installation of...

Glad to hear that it's not just me. I'm definitely not complaining. I'm very happy with what they have done, and I think they deserve a long vacation after each release!

I did a fresh install of 13.04 this past Friday (26 April). I chose to fetch updates as it installed. I see quite a few error messages as the system boots, which go by too fast for me to read, and...