From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newest emacs version that can run on Ubuntu 18.04
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:13:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZBgVsGTuDqd+f+Uu@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR03MB54554171EB336A6077B2CE7CA2809@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 06:38:38PM -0700, David Masterson wrote:
> Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:
>
> > Patrick Mahan wrote:
> >
> >> I have to do development work on some machines running
> >> Ubuntu 18.04 which seems to only support emacs 25.
> >>
> >> Can Ubuntu support a new version? (26, 27 or higher?).
> >
> > Absolutely, I'm on Debian (and Ubuntu is Debian on steroids -
> > useless ones, some say ...) and I use Emacs version
> >
> > GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, cairo
> > version 1.16.0) of 2022-12-26 [commit
> > 2ffe1494e16381cfc7fec95a6a0879f268df3e95]
>
> Interesting. Cairo is GTK-based? So, this Emacs runs under GTK?
No, more the other way around: cairo is a drawing surface which
became a GTK component. It meshes well with GTK (can, e.g. use
Pango as a font rendering engine), but can be used standalone.
But don't believe me, go to the authoritative source [1].
Cheers
[1] https://cairographics.org/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-20 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-16 20:46 Newest emacs version that can run on Ubuntu 18.04 Patrick Mahan
2023-03-16 21:26 ` Marcus Harnisch
2023-03-16 21:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-03-16 21:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-03-28 12:55 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2023-03-16 21:58 ` christian de larrinaga via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-03-16 22:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-03-20 1:38 ` David Masterson
2023-03-20 3:09 ` Po Lu
2023-03-20 3:48 ` David Masterson
2023-03-20 8:13 ` tomas [this message]
2023-03-17 1:57 ` Po Lu
2023-03-20 6:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-23 0:38 ` David Masterson
2023-03-23 2:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-28 13:26 ` Oleg Cherkasov
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