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Collabora + MediaTek: Pushing boundaries on the latest IoT boards and Chromebooks

October 16, 2025 by AngeloGioacchino Del Regno  |   News & Events

Collabora and MediaTek are advancing upstream Linux support for the latest Genio IoT boards and Chromebook Plus laptops, enabling full hardware functionality, improved security, and broader access to the open source community.

Collabora + MediaTek: Pushing boundaries on the latest IoT boards and Chromebooks

Advancing the pipeline at GStreamer Conference 2025

October 15, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is proud to sponsor this year's annual GStreamer conference, taking place in London, UK. Join us as we showcase the latest with machine learning analytics, WirePlumber, and more.

Advancing the pipeline at GStreamer Conference 2025

Kernel 6.17: auspicious autumnal accomplishments

September 30, 2025 by Nicolas Frattaroli  |   News & Events

The kernel 6.17 release benefits from improvements in the graphics subsystem, hardware enablement, and more! See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release.

Kernel 6.17: auspicious autumnal accomplishments

What to do about differing product life cycles

September 25, 2025 by Martyn Welch  |   Blog

Abandoned vendor-provided BSP roadblocks can be overcome when mainline Open Source projects like the Linux kernel are integrated directly. Get your upstreamed BSPs from day one.

What to do about differing product life cycles

From Vienna, with Open Source: XDC 2025

September 24, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Next week, Collabora will be taking part in the 2025 edition X.Org Developer's Conference! Taking place in Vienna, our engineers will be presenting 6 talks and a workshop to help local students discover the embedded graphics stack! Join us!

From Vienna, with Open Source: XDC 2025

Demystifying the special ingredient at Kernel Recipes 2025

September 19, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Join us next week in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We're delighted to sponsor this kernel-focused event and contribute with a talk on GPU drivers.

Demystifying the special ingredient at Kernel Recipes 2025

PanVK now uses AFBC by default

September 17, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   News & Events

AFBC support has been merged to PanVK and will be available in the Mesa 25.3 release! This new enablement reduces memory bandwidth and boosts performance.

PanVK now uses AFBC by default

Adding an AI edge at SIDO 2025

September 15, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Visit us at the STMicroelectronics booth, where Collabora will highlight how the STM32MP2 chip empowers edge AI solutions for industrial applications.

Adding an AI edge at SIDO 2025

Debian 13 "Trixie": Collabora's contributions that made the 2025 release

September 09, 2025 by Dylan Aïssi  |   News & Events

The Debian Trixie release is jam-packed with new features thanks to the efforts of many. See where Collabora contributed to upgraded GNOME components, newer PipeWire versions, and more!

Debian 13

Tested on real silicon: Automating RISC-V Hardware-in-the-Loop

September 08, 2025 by Ariel D'Alessandro  |   News & Events

Addressing the need for reliable hardware testing for RISC-V adoption, the RISE Project and Collabora added two RISC-V boards to Collabora's LAVA testing lab.

Tested on real silicon: Automating RISC-V Hardware-in-the-Loop

GStreamer Analytics, ElectricMaple & more for IBC 2025

September 03, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is headed to Amsterdam. Meet us at Booth A63 in Hall 14 as we showcase GStreamer Analytics combined with ML, hardware-accelerated video decoding in Dante Studio using GStreamer, remote rendering for standalone XR, and more!

GStreamer Analytics, ElectricMaple & more for IBC 2025

Collabora at OSS Europe 2025: Five talks, hands-on demos, and workshops!

August 19, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is heading to Amsterdam with talks, demos, and workshops covering Embedded Linux, KernelCI, Bluetooth & Auracast, mainline video capture for Rockchip, and more. Join us to see our latest open source work in action!

Collabora at OSS Europe 2025: Five talks, hands-on demos, and workshops!

Trimming apitrace workload captures for better Mesa testing

February 01, 2021 by Gert Wollny  |   Blog

Complex, real-world correctness tests and performance analysis are now possible thanks to gltrim, a new tool recently added to apitrace, designed to trim replayable traces to single, user-defined frames.

Trimming apitrace workload captures for better Mesa testing

GStreamer on Windows: adding WebRTC support to a gst-build install

January 28, 2021 by Aaron Boxer  |   Blog

Earlier this week, WebRTC became an official W3C and IETF standard. GStreamer has a powerful and rapidly maturing WebRTC implementation. So, the obvious question is: how do we build this on Windows?

GStreamer on Windows: adding WebRTC support to a gst-build install

Implementing a performance boosting algorithm in Coccinelle

January 21, 2021 by Jaskaran Singh  |   Blog

Last year, from June to September, I worked on the kernel development tool Coccinelle under Collabora. I implemented a performance boosting algorithm for one of Coccinelle's use cases. Here's a look at this work.

Implementing a performance boosting algorithm in Coccinelle

Desktop OpenGL 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost

January 13, 2021 by Alyssa Rosenzweig  |   Blog

The open source Panfrost driver for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs now provides non-conformant OpenGL ES 3.0 on Bifrost and desktop OpenGL 3.1 on Midgard (Mali T760 and newer) and Bifrost, in time for Mesa's first release of 2021.

Desktop OpenGL 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost

Empathy first: Driving growth through people leadership

November 30, 2020 by Eleni Katsoula  |   Blog

This year, the global pandemic has put a strain on us all. Motivation can become hard to maintain, worries can cloud our minds. Now more than ever, it is important to try and connect with our colleagues.

Empathy first: Driving growth through people leadership

Developing Wayland Color Management and High Dynamic Range

November 19, 2020 by Pekka Paalanen  |   Blog

Wayland is still lacking proper consideration for color management & support for high dynamic range (HDR) imagery. However, a group of developers has begun an effort to fix this situation. This is their story.

Developing Wayland Color Management and High Dynamic Range

A summer sprint: bringing near-native performance to Zink

November 06, 2020 by Mike Blumenkrantz  |   Blog

This week marks two years since the OpenGL implementation on Vulkan was initially announced. Since then, and especially over the past few months, much has progressed with many new features being added and performance now close to native (95%!).

A summer sprint: bringing near-native performance to Zink

From Panfrost to production, a tale of Open Source graphics

November 03, 2020 by Alyssa Rosenzweig  |   Blog

Since our previous update on Panfrost, the open source stack for Arm's Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs, we've focused on taking our driver from its reverse-engineered origins on Midgard to a mature stack.

From Panfrost to production, a tale of Open Source graphics

Engaging in an "Open First" remote internship at Collabora

October 20, 2020 by Gustavo Noronha  |   Blog

The concept of a remote internship may raise some doubts, or even red flags, for many students, as would remote jobs for professionals. As a result, we pay extra attention to how we onboard and support our interns.

Engaging in an "Open First" remote internship at Collabora

Building GStreamer text rendering and overlays on Windows with gst-build

September 28, 2020 by Aaron Boxer  |   Blog

GStreamer relies on various 2D font rendering and layout libraries such as Pango and Cairo to generate text for the Pango plugin, which contains elements such as textoverlay. Here's how to add the Pango plugin to a gst-build installation on Windows.

Building GStreamer text rendering and overlays on Windows with gst-build

Initcalls, part 2: Digging into implementation

September 25, 2020 by Mylène Josserand  |   Blog

In this second part of this blog post series on Linux kernel initcalls, we'll go deeper into implementation, with a look at the colorful __device_initcall() macro, the rootfs initcall, and how modules can be executed.

Initcalls, part 2: Digging into implementation

Open Source meets Super Resolution, part 1

September 21, 2020 by Marcus Edel  |   Blog

Introducing an accurate and light-weight deep network for video super-resolution upscaling, running on a completely open source software stack using Panfrost, the free and open-source graphics driver for Mali GPUs.

Open Source meets Super Resolution, part 1

Event: systemd.conf 2015

October 28, 2015 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Berlin, Germany - from 05/11/2015 to 07/11/2015: The systemd.conf is the first conference devoted to the systemd project. It aims to bring developers, distribution packagers and devops professionals together to present, discuss, and work on that topics that will shape the future of the systemd project.

Event: systemd.conf 2015

Event: Web Engines Hackfest 2015

October 28, 2015 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

A Coruña, Spain - from 07/12/2015 to 09/12/2015: The Web Engines Hackfest is a hacking oriented invitation-only event involving members from all parts of the Web Platform community, including those who work on Blink, WebKit, Gecko, and Servo.

Event: Web Engines Hackfest 2015

Event: GENIVI AMM Seoul 2015

October 13, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Seoul, South Korea - From 20/10/2015 to 23/10/2015: We will be exhibiting at the GENIVI Showcase during the All Member Meeting.

Event: GENIVI AMM Seoul 2015

Event: GStreamer Conference 2015

September 28, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Dublin, Ireland - from 08/10/2015 to 09/10/2015: The GStreamer Conference is a conference for anyone interested in the GStreamer multimedia framework or Open Source and cross-platform multimedia.

Event: GStreamer Conference 2015

Event: IBC 2015

September 05, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - from 10/09/2015 to 15/09/2015: we are thrilled to be joining ARM to demonstrate our latest technology showcases together at their booth at IBC 2015. Booth Hall 4.C61

Event: IBC 2015

Event: LPC 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Seattle, USA - from 19/08/2015 to 21/08/2015: The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for those working on the “plumbing” of Linux.

Event: LPC 2015

Event: DebConf 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Heidelberg, Germany - from 15/08/2015 to 22/08/2015: The 16th annual Debian developers meeting.

Event: DebConf 2015

Event: GStreamer Hackfest 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Montpellier, France - from 14/08/2015 to 16/08/2015: GStreamer developers are meeting up to work on the project.

Event: GStreamer Hackfest 2015

Event: InfoComm 2015

March 20, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Orlando, USA - from 17/06/2015 to 19/06/2015: we'll be exhibiting at InfoComm 2015, the largest event for professional AV in the world. Collabora booth 5469

Event: InfoComm 2015

Event: GENIVI AMM Stuttgart 2015

March 18, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Stuttgart, Germany - From 22/04/2015 to 22/04/2015: We will be exhibiting at the GENIVI Demonstration Showcase during the All Member Meeting.

Event: GENIVI AMM Stuttgart 2015

Event: ISE 2015

January 15, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Amsterdam, The Netherlands February 10-12, 2015: the world’s largest tradeshow dedicated to professional AV and electronic systems integration. Collabora booth #11-E61

Event: ISE 2015

Event: CES 2015

December 17, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Las Vegas, USA - January 6th - 9th, 2015: Collabora will be participating with key partners at CES 2015, the world’s gathering place for all who thrive on the business of consumer technologies.

Event: CES 2015

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