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Open Recall is for those things that are too small to be news but are worth the linkage. Open Recall collates the interesting stories that didn't quite make the cut

The latest open-source Radeon Linux driver code for supporting the Radeon X1000 (R500) series hardware has basically reached a point of competitiveness with the legacy Catalyst Linux driver that once supported this hardware. In some cases the open-source Gallium3D driver is now faster than what Catalyst once ran at while in other select OpenGL workloads there is still a proprietary imbalance.

Visual voicemail functionality is the visual element in a voicemail application that allows text to be transcribed and displayed on the phone -- or more simply, message headers, or envelopes, are displayed textually in a list. Options often include push to email and SMS. It's been around in various forms since Apple's iPhone kick-started smartphone user interfaces into the 21st century.

This week from the E3 Expo there's been new details to emerge about Unreal Engine 4 as the latest game engine that's in development by Epic Games. But will there be any native UE4 Linux games to come or will it face a similar fate to Unreal Engine 3 on Linux?..

If not being able to tell the time while running the reference Weston compositor held you back from experimenting with Wayland, fear not. Logging functionality for Weston was also merged...

The GLX extension for specifying at context-creation time what OpenGL version and context properties will be used may finally enter the X.Org Server, which is important in supporting newer versions of OpenGL under Linux...

As I am frequently asked about my unique monitor setup, brand preference on different computer peripherals and other questions about my personal hardware choices as it pertains to Linux, here's a tour of my Phoronix office for this weekend article. There's also some additional thoughts beyond what you will find in previously-published Phoronix reviews.

Prior to taking a week-long holiday where he will be mostly "MIA", Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.5-rc2 kernel...

Here's a look at some of the upcoming articles on Phoronix this month, including another large Radeon Linux graphics comparison...

In the last seven days: the first RC for Linux 3.5 arrived, LinkedIn user passwords were compromised and Firefox 13 was released. Also, Glyn Moody took a look at open source in computer education and The H spoke to FlightGear project coordinator Curtis Olson

The xf86-video-ati 6.14.5 driver was released today with several changes...

A critical patch update for Java is due on Tuesday from Oracle; a dozen remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that require no authentication will be patched

The second milestone release of JetBrains Kotlin language can now compile code that runs on Android. The IDE support for the language also lets developers try out Kotlin's compile-to-JavaScript capabilities

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is one of the older real-time communications methods still in active use on the Internet. Due to its popularity, flexibility and cross-platform nature, it still has a very vibrant user base today.

With the 8th birthday of Phoronix yesterday, here's a collection of the most popular Phoronix stories about Linux and open-source that were written since its creation in 2004.

Linux Mint 13, the Maya release, is an impressive upgrade that builds on the progress found in version 12. It contains few additional innovations to the operating system. But it updates numerous core elements and provides more solid performance from the two new desktop interfaces introduced in Mint 12.

While patches have been around for more than one year to support Hierarchical Z on the ATI/AMD R600 open-source driver, the Gallium3D support still hasn't been merged...

It's now been four months since Linux Game Publishing saw its new CEO, but there's been no announcements since the decade-old company saw some new blood at the healm...

As Linux attracts more developers, careful thinking and best practices can reduce the unique testing challenges it presents

The LLVM compiler infrastructure provides a powerful way to optimize your applications regardless of the programming language you use. Learn the basics of the LLVM in this first article of a two-part series. Building a custom compiler just got easier!