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Introduction to ICE and libnice

October 31, 2014 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

Introductory talk on libnice (done as part of Collabora's tea time training)

Introduction to ICE and libnice

News: We are hiring!

October 21, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Software engineering, quality assurance, project management, and Finance are all looking for great and talented people. Please check us out. https://www.collabora.com/about-us/careers.html

News: We are hiring!

Collabora contributions to the Linux kernel 3.17

October 11, 2014 by Javier Canillas  |   Blog

Collabora contributions to the Linux kernel 3.17

Collabora contributions to the Linux kernel 3.17

Improving the security of D-Bus

October 06, 2014 by Alban Crequy  |   Blog

Eight security issues were discovered, fixed and attributed a CVE.

Improving the security of D-Bus

Dynamic relocs, runtime overflows and -fPIC

October 01, 2014 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

A discussion of dynamic relocation, position independent code, the -fPIC flag and how it affects generated assembly. The focus would be on the practical implications of it all, including when to (and when not to) use -fPIC.

Dynamic relocs, runtime overflows and -fPIC

Event: GStreamer Conference 2014

September 29, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Düsseldorf, Germany October 16-17, 2014: the GStreamer Conference is a conference for developers, decision-makers, community members, industry partners, and anyone else interested in the GStreamer multimedia framework or Open Source and cross-platform…

Event: GStreamer Conference 2014

A web browser for the Raspberry Pi

September 01, 2014 by Marco Barisione  |   Blog

Collabora has been working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation on various projects including a web browser optimised for the Raspberry Pi. Since the first beta release we have made huge improvements; now the browser is more responsive, it’s faster, and…

A web browser for the Raspberry Pi

GStreamer gains V4L2 Mem-2-Mem support

August 27, 2014 by Nicolas Dufresne  |   Blog

A team at Samsung (and many core Linux contributors) started adding new type of drivers to the Linux Media Infrastructure API (also known as Video4Linux 2).

GStreamer gains V4L2 Mem-2-Mem support

Event: IBC 2014

August 13, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 12-16, 2014: the essential global meeting place for everyone engaged in creating, managing and delivering the future of electronic media and entertainment technology and content. Collabora booth #8.B38c

Event: IBC 2014

Wayland on MALI

August 13, 2014 by Daniel Stone  |   Blog

Predictable media latency, low power usage and vastly improved A/V sync. Wayland versus X11 explained on ARM MALI

Wayland on MALI

Event: SIGGRAPH 2014

August 11, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Vancouver, Canada August 12-14, 2014: SIGGRAPH, visit ARM at Booth #933 in the Mobile Pavilion to meet with Collabora. SIGGRAPH attracts 20,000 international attendees from across the globe and many creative and technical disciplines. It is the only…

Event: SIGGRAPH 2014

News: In Cambridge, England 2014

August 05, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Cambridge, England August 5-8, 2014: With so many silicon vendors and OEMs visiting Cambridge England, August 5-8 transforms the univeristy town into the world's center of innovation for one week. Cambridge in August attracts international leaders in…

News: In Cambridge, England 2014

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.1

August 24, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas  |   Blog

Kernel.org Collabora contributions

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.1

Alex's work experience at Collabora

August 06, 2015 by Alex Shtyrov  |   Blog

A student intership experience at Collabora

Alex's work experience at Collabora

Why polkit (or, how to mount a disk on modern Linux)

June 08, 2015 by Simon McVittie  |   Blog

Why udisks2 and polkit are the way they are

Why polkit (or, how to mount a disk on modern Linux)

Checking D-Bus API stability

June 02, 2015 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

D-Bus API features

Checking D-Bus API stability

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.0

May 11, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas  |   Blog

Collabora upstream work on Linux kernel

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.0

Lucid sleep in the free desktop

May 01, 2015 by Tomeu Vizoso  |   Blog

Describes ability of performing work while the machine is in a low power state such as suspend.

Lucid sleep in the free desktop

Tracking the reference count of a GstMiniObject using gdb

April 13, 2015 by Guillaume Desmottes  |   Blog

Debugging GStreamer

Tracking the reference count of a GstMiniObject using gdb

Blink started supporting font-size-adjust css property

March 26, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh  |   Blog

Blink font-size-adjust via CSS properties

Blink started supporting font-size-adjust css property

JPEG-XR support on blink

March 21, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh  |   Blog

JPEG-XR support on browsing technologies

JPEG-XR support on blink

Weston repaint scheduling

February 11, 2015 by Pekka Paalanen  |   Blog

Latest Weston features

Weston repaint scheduling

GNOME programming guidelines: the rise of gnome-devel-docs

February 11, 2015 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

Check out the new GNOME Programming Guidelines and file bugs in Bugzilla.

GNOME programming guidelines: the rise of gnome-devel-docs

Crosswalk and its JS, JAVA and Native Extensions performance

February 05, 2015 by Danilo Cesar  |   Blog

A brief discussion about Crosswalk’s JS, JAVA and Native Extensions performance

Crosswalk and its JS, JAVA and Native Extensions performance

Apertis v2026: A modern foundation for industrial embedded development

March 31, 2026 by Walter Lozano  |   News & Events

Based on Debian 13 (Trixie), Apertis v2026 delivers updated system libraries, development tools, compilers, and core services, alongside a new default Wayland compositor, a reworked SDK, and smarter packaging pipelines.

Apertis v2026: A modern foundation for industrial embedded development

How Monado became the foundation for OpenXR runtimes

March 26, 2026 by Frederic Plourde  |   News & Events

Google's AndroidXR. Qualcomm's Snapdragon Spaces. NVIDIA CloudXR. What do they have in common? Monado, the Open Source, cross-platform OpenXR runtime Collabora launched as an alternative to proprietary XR stacks.

How Monado became the foundation for OpenXR runtimes

Collabora at Embedded World 2026: Open Source AI and Embedded Innovation

March 05, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

As champions of open source development in the embedded community, Collabora will be at Booth 4-404 with an impressive lineup of live demonstrations spanning graphics, machine learning, continuous testing, and real-world applications.

Collabora at Embedded World 2026: Open Source AI and Embedded Innovation

RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel

February 25, 2026 by Detlev Casanova  |   News & Events

Support for Rockchip’s VDPU381 and VDPU383 decoders is now upstream in Linux, bringing mainline H.264/HEVC decode support, robust IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 UAPI controls aligned with Vulkan Video.

RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel

Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

February 19, 2026 by Marius Vlad  |   News & Events

Weston 15.0 has arrived, bringing a brand new Lua-based shell for fully customizable window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and a host of improvements to color handling, media playback, and display performance.

Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

Monado at the core of Android XR

February 18, 2026 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Collabora is excited to see Monado at the heart of the new OpenXR runtime for Android XR, a major milestone for Open Source XR interoperability.

Monado at the core of Android XR

GStreamer 1.28 brings AI inference to your media pipeline

February 17, 2026 by Olivier Crête  |   News & Events

With its latest release, GStreamer adds native support for AI inference engines including ONNX Runtime, LiteRT, and Burn, along with tensor decoders for YOLO, face detection, tracking, and more.

GStreamer 1.28 brings AI inference to your media pipeline

Kernel 6.19: GPU, SoC, and Rust improvements

February 10, 2026 by Michael Riesch  |   News & Events

Collabora continues to be a key contributor to the Linux kernel, with 125 patches from 21 developers! Highlights include Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, Rust integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality.

Kernel 6.19: GPU, SoC, and Rust improvements

Running Debian on the OpenWrt One

January 15, 2026 by Sjoerd Simons  |   News & Events

With openwrt-one-debian, you can now install and run a full Debian system leveraging the OpenWrt One’s NVMe storage, enabling everything from custom services and containers to development tools and lightweight server workloads, all on open hardware.

Running Debian on the OpenWrt One

Save your spot at FOSDEM 2026: Rockchip, Tyr, GStreamer ML & more!

January 13, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

At this year's edition of FOSDEM Collabora will be present with 7 talks! Join us to get the latest on video capture on Rockchip SoCs, Tyr, machine learning in GStreamer, and more!

Save your spot at FOSDEM 2026: Rockchip, Tyr, GStreamer ML & more!

Chromium on MediaTek: From testing to real-world performance on Genio 700 & 720

December 24, 2025 by Alexandros Frantzis  |   News & Events

A deep dive on the current status of Chromium enablement on MediaTek Genio SoCs, including what the numbers look like when MediaTek’s hardware codecs are driven by Chromium’s V4L2 paths.

Chromium on MediaTek: From testing to real-world performance on Genio 700 & 720

Driving a seamless Chromium experience on MediaTek SoCs

December 17, 2025 by Alexandros Frantzis  |   News & Events

As Chromium becomes the default UI runtime on embedded Linux devices, we’re closing long-standing V4L2 gaps and enabling efficient hardware video encoding and decoding on MediaTek platforms for both downstream and upstream.

Driving a seamless Chromium experience on MediaTek SoCs

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