Linux Distributions Now Encouraged To Build GTK With Vulkan

Last week I wrote about GTK landing their new unified GPU renderer and as part of that the Vulkan API support is set to be enabled by default. Linux distribution vendors are being encouraged moving forward to indeed ship with the GTK Vulkan support enabled, so we'll be seeing more Vulkan API use on the Linux desktop with OpenGL slowly fading away...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-Vulkan-Default-Ahead

Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40

This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on a large number of change proposals for the Fedora 40 release due out in April...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Mid-Jan-Features

RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support

With Linus Torvalds back to work, merged to mainline on Wednesday were the RISC-V architecture updates for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Linux-6.8