September 20, 2017 by Mark Filion | News & Events
The 2017 X.Org Developer's Conference kicks off today in Mountain View, California, and along with Collaborans attending & presenting, we're delighted to announce the first ever Collabora XDC Happy Hour!
September 11, 2017 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Collaborans will be giving five talks during this year's edition, which starts today in Los Angeles!
September 06, 2017 by Sebastian Reichel | News & Events
Linux Kernel 4.13 is out, with 12 Collabora developers having contributed, pairing up with 4.12 as another kernel release with our highest number of Collabora developers!
August 17, 2017 by Simon McVittie | Blog
Last week, I attended DebConf 17 in Montréal, returning to DebConf for the first time in 10 years (last time was DebConf 7 in Edinburgh). It was great to put names to faces and meet more of my co-developers in person!
August 04, 2017 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Collabora is proud to once again be a Gold Sponsor of this year's DebConf, the annual Debian conference for developers! This year's week-long conference takes place from August 6 to 12 at Collège de Maisonneuve in beautiful Montréal, where one of our…
July 27, 2017 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Over the next few days, Collaborans will be getting back on the road and attending two events, one in Manchester and one in Los Angeles. We're also very pleased to be sponsoring one of these events!
July 24, 2017 by Robert Foss | Blog
More progress is being made in the area of i.MX6, etnaviv and Android. Since the last post a lot work has gone into upstreaming and stabilizing the etnaviv on Android ecosystem. This has involved Android, kernel and Mesa changes, many of which are available…
July 18, 2017 by Alexandros Frantzis | Blog
Ever since Vulkan was announced a few years ago, the idea of creating a Vulkan benchmarking tool in the spirit of glmark2 had been floating in my mind. Recently, thanks to my employer, Collabora, this idea has materialized! The result is the vkmark Vulkan…
July 04, 2017 by Martyn Welch | News & Events
Linux Kernel 4.12 is out, with 12 Collabora developers having contributed, a new record number of developers contributing to a single kernel release for Collabora!
June 29, 2017 by Robert Foss | Blog
Debugging graphics performance in a simple and high-level manner is possible for all Gallium based Mesa drivers using GALLIUM_HUD, a feature that adds performance graphs to applications.
June 27, 2017 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Our worldwide team of Open Source engineers and developers continues to grow with new additions in Core, Graphics & Web! Welcome Denis Pynkin, Alexandros Frantzis and Santosh Mahto!
June 20, 2017 by Sjoerd Simons | Blog
At Collabora one of the many things we do is build Debian derivatives/overlays for customers on a variety of architectures including 32 bit and 64 bit ARM systems. And just as Debian does, our OBS system builds on native systems rather than emulators.
September 13, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
When it comes to buffer sharing synchronization in the kernel there are two ways of doing it: Implicit Fencing and Explicit Fencing. The difference between them relies on the fact that the kernel may or may not share synchronization information with userspace,…
September 02, 2016 by Robert Foss | Blog
Developing Linux for Android on Qemu allows you to do some things that are not necessarily possible using the stock emulator. For my purposes I need access to a GPU and be able to modify the driver, which is where Virgilrenderer and Qemu comes in handy.
August 23, 2016 by Helen Fornazier | Blog
Nowadays, in Google Cloud Engine (GCE), it is possible to attach a local SSD with the NVMe interface to your virtual machine. Unfortunately, you only get a good number of iops (input/output operations per second) if you instantiate a machine with nvme-backports-debian-7-wheezy…
August 12, 2016 by Philip Withnall | Blog
I have recently been involved in reviewing some large feature patchsets for a project at work, and thought it might be interesting to discuss some of the principles we have been trying to stick to when going about these reviews.
August 05, 2016 by Timothy Arceri | Blog
For years the open source Linux OpenGL drivers have been playing catchup to the proprietary drivers and in the case of Intel hardware to the Windows driver. Recently, a major milestone was reached in bridging this gap with the enablement of OpenGL 4.4…
July 26, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
Linux Kernel 4.7 was released this week with a total of 36 contributions from five Collabora engineers. It includes the first contributions from Helen as Collaboran and the first ever contributions on the kernel from Robert Foss. Here are some of the…
July 08, 2016 by Nicolas Dufresne | Blog
For a long time I believed that echo cancellers had no place inside GStreamer. The theory was that GStreamer was too high level and would never be able to provide accurate enough delay information for any canceller to work.
July 04, 2016 by Lubosz Sarnecki | Blog
The dawn of VR video players demand new features in terms of projection and hardware access. In his recent R&D work, a Collaboran implemented a way to view spherical videos with GStreamer on a Virtual Reality headset. In this article, he gives his thoughts…
June 27, 2016 by Frédéric Plourde | Blog
I’ve been fortunate enough lately to attend the largest virtual reality professional event/conference : SVVR. This virtual reality conference’s been held each year in the Silicon Valley for 3 years now. This year, it showcased more than 100 VR companies…
June 22, 2016 by Simon McVittie | Blog
I'm back from the GTK hackfest in Toronto, Canada and mostly recovered from jetlag, so it's time to write up my notes on what we discussed there.
June 19, 2016 by Guillaume Desmottes | Blog
At Collabora, our multimedia team is always looking to improve QA tools in GStreamer. This blog introduces a new QA tool: a GStreamer tracer to track leaked objects.
June 10, 2016 by Helen Fornazier | Blog
When the kernel crashes, it's good to know how to analyze the log and to discover exactly where the error occurred. This blog post shows a simple technique to retrieve the buggy line from the addresses shown in the log and also enabling specifics logs…
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
August 13, 2025 by Eric Smith | News & Events
The Mesa 25.2 release introduces support for AFBC compressed YUV textures in the Panfrost driver for ARM Mali GPUs, enabling more efficient memory bandwidth and power usage in video playback and real-time texture processing.
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November 9-15, Hanover, Germany
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