On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 06:38:38PM -0700, David Masterson wrote: > Emanuel Berg 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/ -- t