May 17, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Less than a day away, May 18th looks to be a very busy time. With Live Embedded Event and Embedded Vision Summit taking place almost simultaneously, Collabora will be presenting four different talks!
April 29, 2022 by Frederic Danis | News & Events
Over the last two years, Bluetooth® audio support has steadily grown in PipeWire and has become a featureful, stable, conformant, open source Bluetooth® audio stack implementation. Here's a look at where things stand.
April 27, 2022 by Jakub Piotr Cłapa | News & Events
Looking to use hardware-backed and virtual SocketCAN interfaces inside your Kubernetes Pods? A new device plugin now allows processes inside a pod to communicate with each other using the full Linux SocketCAN API.
April 06, 2022 by Frédéric Plourde | News & Events
Monado has been accepted for the first time as a mentoring organization for the 2022 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)! Collabora will be providing three mentors to support contributors who want to work on Monado-related projects.
April 05, 2022 by Mateo de Mayo | Blog
Monado now has initial support for 6DoF ("inside-out") tracking for devices with cameras and an IMU! Three free and open source SLAM/VIO solutions were integrated and adapted to work on XR: Kimera-VIO, ORB-SLAM3, and Basalt.
March 31, 2022 by Sebastian Fricke | News & Events
While eastern Europe has experienced ghastly events that have shaken the world, the latest Linux kernel release could aptly be named "Solid & Steady." Here's a look at some of the contributions made by Collabora's kernel team.
March 30, 2022 by Xavier Claessens | Blog
When developing an application or a library, it is very common to want to run it without installing it, or to install it into a custom prefix rather than on the system. Here's how Meson can help with that.
March 24, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us next week for Open Source 101, a one-day conference where we'll dive into the latest around FOSS virtual & augmented reality, and look at the implications of enabling automated testing upstream.
March 23, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
An incredible amount has changed in Mesa and in the Vulkan ecosystems since we wrote the first Vulkan driver in Mesa for Intel hardware back in 2015. Not only has Vulkan grown, but Mesa has as well.
March 14, 2022 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | Blog
Every file system used in production has tools to try to recover from system crashes. To provide a better infrastructure for those tools, our kernel team developed FAN_FS_ERROR, a new fanotify event which monitors error notifications.
March 08, 2022 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
The PipeWire project made major strides over the past few years, bringing shiny new features, and paving the way for new possibilities in the Linux multimedia scene. A look what was accomplished in 2021, and what lies ahead for 2022.
March 01, 2022 by Simon McVittie | News & Events
Congratulations to Valve on the release of the Steam Deck, their new handheld gaming PC! With it comes a new release of SteamOS, complete with a brand new A/B design for seamless system updates.
August 06, 2025 by Daniel Almeida | Blog
This second post in the Tyr series dives deeper into GPU driver internals by using the Vulkan-based VkCube application to explain how User Mode Drivers (UMDs) and Kernel Mode Drivers (KMDs) work together to execute GPU workloads.
July 22, 2025 by Olivier Crête | Blog
Getting into kernel development can be daunting. There are layers upon layers of knowledge to master, but no clear roadmap, especially when it comes to debugging drivers or navigating userspace-kernel issues.
July 15, 2025 by Olivier Crête | Blog
This past May, we met with the community at the GStreamer Spring Hackfest in Nice, France, and were able to make great strides, including the integration of AI/ML workflows in GStreamer.
July 03, 2025 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
As part of the activities Embedded Recipes in Nice, France, Collabora hosted a PipeWire workshop/hackfest, an opportunity for attendees to meet face-to-face with PipeWire developers and participate in direct discussions about the future of PipeWire.
June 25, 2025 by Tathagata Roy | Blog
In collaboration with Inria, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, Tathagata Roy shares the progress made over the past year on the CoccinelleForRust project, co-sponsored by Collabora
June 23, 2025 by Nicolas Dufresne | Blog
Last month in Nice, active media developers came together for the annual Linux Media Summit to exchange insights and tackle ongoing challenges in the media subsystem. Here’s a brief summary of the key discussions and upcoming areas of focus.
June 09, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
In this final article based on Matt Godbolt's talk on making APIs easy to use and hard to misuse, I will discuss locking, an area where C++ has produced some interesting ideas, most notably something called RAII — Resource Acquisition Is Initialization.
May 21, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
In this second article of a three-part series, I look at how Matt Godbolt uses modern C++ features to try to protect against misusing an API that deals with destructive state transition based on a talk he gave on making code easy to use and hard to misuse.
May 12, 2025 by Aaron Boxer | Blog
Powerful video analytics pipelines are easy to make when you're well-equipped. Combining GStreamer and Machine Learning frameworks are the perfect duo to run complex models across multiple streams.
May 06, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
Gustavo Noronha helps break down C++ and shows how that knowledge can open up new possibilities with Rust.
April 29, 2025 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
Configuring WirePlumber on embedded Linux systems can be somewhat confusing. We take a moment to demystify this process for a particular use case.
April 24, 2025 by Martyn Welch | Blog
Collabora's Board Farm demo, showcasing our recent hardware enablement and continuous integration efforts, has undergone serious development over the years. Here's a look at notable changes and improvements made for Embedded World 2025.
April 08, 2024 by Xavier Claessens | News & Events
GStreamer 1.24 was recently released, and with it came with a new plugin to help separate pipelines into different processes.
April 05, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Seattle is hosting this year's Embedded Open Source Summit, the umbrella conference for a collection of open source events. This is the premier space for the open source community and we'll be there with 6 talks!
April 03, 2024 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Honoring outstanding innovations in the field of embedded system technologies, the annual Embedded Award ceremony will be taking place next week at Embedded World 2024 in Nuremberg.
April 02, 2024 by Frederic Plourde | News & Events
As we reflect on the strides made in recent months, it's remarkable to see how OpenXR and Monado have evolved and are shaping the future of XR development. Let's take a closer look at the progress made and noteworthy achievements.
March 22, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
One of the largest trade fair of its kind, and a global platform for the embedded community, Embedded World will be taking place next month at the NürnbergMesse in the quaint city of Nuremberg, Germany
March 19, 2024 by Daniel Morin | News & Events
Thanks to sponsors like STMicroelectronics, Netflix, Living Optics, and ChromeOS, Collabora once again came in first place with the most contributors for this release, with 16 developers taking part.
March 11, 2024 by Muhammad Usama Anjum | News & Events
The latest Linux Kernel 6.8 release brings thousands of new lines of code, improving the core kernel, architecture support, networking, file systems, and more.
March 04, 2024 by Boris Brezillon | News & Events
Late last week, the long-awaited kernel driver supporting 10th-generation Arm Mali GPUs was merged into drm-misc. The existing Gallium driver support has also been extended, effectively enabling GPUs on Rockchip's RK3588 platforms.
March 01, 2024 by Helen Koike | News & Events
This initial version includes static checks (checkpatch and smatch for now) and build tests across various architectures and configurations, and introduces a flexible 'scenarios' mechanism for subsystem-specific extensions.
February 28, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
The merge request has landed, the non-conformant implementation warnings are gone, and NVK's Meson configuration now reads "nouveau" instead of "nouveau-experimental". It's now time to start shipping NVK to users!
February 26, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
We've recently had some new faces join the team and we are delighted that our talented new joiners have readily jumped in to advance the open source mission.
February 15, 2024 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Collabora's engineers presented six talks over the course of the weekend, with topics including a review of recent improvements to GStreamer, a look at the state of video offloading on the Linux desktop, and more.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
September 16, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 17-18, Lyon, France
September 17-18, Oviedo, Spain
September 21-26, Philadelphia, USA
September 22-25, Paris, France
September 29 - October 1, Vienna, Austria
Whether writing a line of code or shaping a longer-term strategic software development plan, we'll help you navigate the ever-evolving world of Open Source.
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