Wine is a life-saver for hundreds of thousands of Linux enthusiasts who are tempted to go back to the closed world of Windows due to some important or enticing Windows applications. Wine lets one run those apps and games seamlessly on Linux.
The developers of Wine have shipped the latest development release of this software in the form of Wine 4.6; Wine 4.0 is still the stable release.
The biggest change in the new version is the initial work towards a Vulkan backend for WineD3D. While it’s not something that the users are going to notice and benefit from right away, it’ll surely be helpful in the long-term. You can read thisPhonorix articleto get a better idea of why it didn’t happen sooner and other essential bits.
All in all, it’s an improvement over the last release, thanks to a total of 50 bug fixes spread all across the software. Other changes include support for using a shared location to load Mono libraries, support for common button control, port of video capture to Video4Linux version 2, etc.
You canvisit this linkto find the complete list of changes and bug fixes; the link also contains Wine 4.6 download link. Complete Wine installation commands for Ubuntu and derivatives can be found on thispage.
Emacs 26.2
Now moving on the world ofLinux text editors!
Sublime Text is my personal favorite but there are chances thatGNU Emacsmight be your go-to choice. If that’s the case, the latest Emacs 26.2 is here for you. This release follows Emacs 26.1, which arrived in May 2018.The primary feature of Emacs 26.2 is the Unicode 11.0 support. It goes without saying that this addition will bring lots of new emojis and characters. The new version also lets one build Emacs modules outside of the original tree source
To know about specific editing changes in Emacs 26.2, I’d recommend you to read this officialrelease postand get to know how you can use the ‘Z’ command on a directory and compress and files inside it. There are other small changes as well, so do check them out.
Emacs installation command for Ubuntu and derivatives:
