September 15, 2020 by Mark Filion | News & Events
The lineup of great virtual conferences continues this week with the 2020 edition of X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC), the leading event for developers working on all things Open graphics, including the Linux kernel, Mesa, DRM, Wayland and X11.
September 11, 2020 by Raghavendra Rao | Blog
PipeWire continues to evolve with the recent integration of libcamera, a library to support complex cameras. In this blog post, I'll explain why libcamera exists, what it does, and how we integrated it in PipeWire.
August 31, 2020 by Emil Velikov | Blog
A high-level introduction of the Linux graphics stack, how it is used within ChromeOS, and the work done to improve software rendering (while simultaneously improving GPU rendering by reducing the boilerplate needed in applications).
August 27, 2020 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | Blog
Last year, a (controversial) feature was added to the Linux kernel to support optimized case-insensitive file name lookups in the Ext4 filesystem. Here's a look at why this was merged, what improvements have been made since, and how to put it to work.
August 24, 2020 by Mark Filion | News & Events
August ends on a high note with two virtual events this week: DebConf20, Debian's annual conference, and Linux Plumbers Conference, the premier event for developers working at all levels of the Linux kernel's plumbing layer and beyond.
August 21, 2020 by Antonio Caggiano | Blog
We have now integrated Mali GPU hardware counters supported by Panfrost with Perfetto's tracing SDK, unlocking all-in-one graphics-aware profiling on Panfrost systems!
August 20, 2020 by Antonio Ospite | Blog
Key performance improvements and fixes to GStreamer's RTP stack have landed in GStreamer 1.18, due in the coming months. The latest enhancements provide an important boost in throughput, opening the gate to high bitrate video streaming.
August 13, 2020 by Marcus Edel | Blog
Following our recent presentation at OSSummit, many showed interest in learning more about solving real-world problems with computer vision. Here is a new blog series, on computer vision, object detection, and building a system on the edge.
August 07, 2020 by Leandro Ribeiro | Blog
Recent work in Weston, the industry-standard Wayland compositor, has enabled DRM/KMS backends to be tested in the absence of real hardware, enabling more battle testing of corner-case and error conditions within automated testing frameworks.
August 05, 2020 by Dafna Hirschfeld | News & Events
The ability for a relatively small software consultancy to contribute at this level demonstrates a fantastic improvement in vendors' mindset when it comes to working Open First and providing mainline support out-of-box as early as possible.
July 17, 2020 by Christoph Haag | News & Events
HTC Vive (Pro) and Valve Index hardware users can now experiment with positional tracking in Monado, thanks to the implementation of a libsurvive driver using the libsurvive library developed by Charles Lohr, David Berger and many contributors.
July 16, 2020 by George Kiagiadakis | News & Events
It is with great pleasure that we announce the availability of WirePlumber (the PipeWire session manager) version 0.3.0. This release brings support for desktop use cases and is a working drop-in replacement for PipeWire's example session manager.
February 01, 2016 by Simon McVittie | Blog
Over the last few days I've been at the GNOME Developer Experience hackfest in Brussels, looking into xdg-app and how best to use it in Debian and Debian derivatives.
January 27, 2016 by Philip Withnall | Blog
As JSON becomes used more and more in place of XML, we need a replacement for tools like xmllint to check that JSON documents follow whatever format they are supposed to be following.
January 12, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
Linux Kernel 4.4 was released this week and Collabora engineers helped in the development of the new kernel in a few different areas. A total of 38 patches from 8 Collabora engineers were added, making it the kernel release with the most Collabora developers…
November 12, 2015 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
Collabora developers contributed a total of 48 patches to kernel 4.3 as part of our current projects.
October 13, 2015 by Philip Withnall | Blog
For those who like their I/O packetised, GLib now has a companion for its GIOStream class — the GDatagramBasedinterface, which we’ve implemented as part of R&D work at Collabora.
September 15, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | Blog
Standing on the shoulders of giants. As Collabora turns 10 years this month, we are forced to stop and marvel at the accomplishments of GNU in its 30 years of existence. Happy 30th anniversary GNU
August 25, 2015 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
Kernel.org Collabora contributions
August 24, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog
Kernel.org Collabora contributions
August 06, 2015 by Alex Shtyrov | Blog
A student intership experience at Collabora
June 08, 2015 by Simon McVittie | Blog
Why udisks2 and polkit are the way they are
May 11, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog
Collabora upstream work on Linux kernel
July 16, 2026 by Marius Vlad | News & Events
Weston 16 expands HDR and color management support, improves Perfetto debugging and DRM backend performance, and adds new protocol and renderer capabilities for more efficient and flexible Wayland compositor development.
July 13, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Next week we'll be in Santa Fe, Argentina, for DebConf 2026! Catch our 2 talks covering the latest Apertis developments and toolkits in Debian.
June 25, 2026 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Kraid is a new Rust-based compiler for Panfrost that replaces the aging Bifrost-rooted compiler stack with a cleaner, more flexible design for modern Mali GPUs, improving IR structure, register allocation, hardware testing, and long-term maintainability.
June 17, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us on June 18 for our low-latency ML video analytics demo on the Ryzen AI Max 300 Series at the AMD Embedded Computing Summit!
June 17, 2026 by Vignesh Raman | News & Events
Linux kernel 7.1 brings improvements across filesystems, networking, scheduling, graphics, Rust, and hardware enablement, with Collabora contributing 65 patches from 16 engineers across Panthor, DRM, Rockchip, MediaTek, and driver fixes across the kernel.
June 12, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Next week we'll be in Long Beach, California for AWE USA 2026. Catch our talk exploring OpenXR, from its practical foundation for cross-platform XR interoperability, to its extension support across devices, and more!
May 21, 2026 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Embedded Recipes returns to Nice for its second standalone edition, along with Linux Media Summit, PipeWire, libcamera, GStreamer Spring Hackfest, and new Display Next Hackfest & BlueZ F2F. Visit our table for Tyr, ML video analytics & Flipper One prototype!
May 21, 2026 by Sjoerd Simons | News & Events
Collabora is proud to share that we've partnered with Flipper Devices to work together on building an open Linux platform for hardware hackers. The long-awaited Flipper One will be built on the Rockchip RK3576!
May 13, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us next week in Utrecht for RustWeek! We'll be running a SuperTuxKart tournament to showcase Tyr, the Rust driver for Arm Mali GPUs. Come and see if you've got what it takes!
April 27, 2026 by Adrian Ratiu | News & Events
Collabora's contributions to Git 2.54 and the upcoming 2.55 add powerful config-based hooks with better visibility, opt-in parallel hook execution, and safer submodule handling via path-collision fixes.
April 20, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is headed to Stuttgart for XR Expo 2026! Visit us in Hall 2, booth 2C22, to experience the latest around Monado and ElectricMaple, and catch our 2 talks!
April 14, 2026 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
This week, Collabora is at the YouTube Device Partner Summit in Tokyo showcasing our ongoing work with YouTube, notably on their TV app and the RDK platform, which has resulted in the RDK's integration as a core platform for Cobalt development.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
July 20 - 25, Santa Fe, Argentina