April 21, 2020 by Erica Ryoo | News & Events
In these times of disruption and uncertainty, how about some positive news for a change? Let's take a moment to celebrate the newest members of our engineering and administration teams: Mylène, Christopher, Melissa, Ricardo and Leandro!
April 20, 2020 by Mark Filion | Blog
Google Open Source has announced their 2020 first quarter Google Open Source Peer Bonus winners, and Alyssa Rosenzweig, Software Engineer at Collabora, is among the recipients!
April 17, 2020 by Andre Almeida | Blog
In my previous blog post, we discussed the importance of testing, what is fuzzing, and how the syzkaller fuzzes the kernel in order to find bugs. Now, let’s install the tool and starting using it to improve our code base.
April 14, 2020 by Mark Filion | Blog
Open Source software development thrives on remote collaboration, and continues to do so in 2020, with multiple projects announcing releases in the first quarter.
April 10, 2020 by Pekka Paalanen | Blog
When you work on a piece of software, you usually want to be able to build and test it manually on your local system, but without compromising your system or destabilizing the distribution provided software.
April 08, 2020 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz | Blog
Rockchip SoCs, notably the RK3399, are popular in devices such as Chromebooks and single-board computers. Indeed, they bring some interesting features, one of them being the Arm Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC).
March 31, 2020 by Helen Koike | News & Events
Despite the challenges presented by COVID-19, Linux kernel development continues. Here's a look at the various projects Collaborans have been involved in, and the progress made in kernel 5.6, which was released over the weekend.
March 30, 2020 by Mark Filion | News & Events
This week, Daniel Stone and Tomeu Vizoso will be taking part in Linaro Tech Days, a series of technical sessions presented live online via Zoom webinar and streamed on YouTube. These sessions are free to attend and open to the public!
March 26, 2020 by Andre Almeida | Blog
With the code base of the Linux kernel constantly changing and deployed in devices around the world, performing proper testing is crucial. Here's a look at syzkaller, a valuable tool widely adopted by the kernel community to detect bugs in the kernel.
March 24, 2020 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
Today, Collabora is excited to announce a partnership with Microsoft to build OpenCL and OpenGL mapping layers on DirectX, in order to bring OpenCL 1.2 and OpenGL 3.3 support to all Windows and DirectX 12 enabled devices.
March 19, 2020 by Stéphane Cerveau | Blog
GStreamer relies on multiple repositories such as base and good to build its ecosystem, and now owns more than 30 projects in Gitlab. So, a unified tool/build system has always been necessary to build a specified version.
March 10, 2020 by Olivier Potin | Blog
Here at Collabora, we trust our people to work remotely, we give them full responsibility for their output, and we believe it helps creating an even stronger internal culture and comes with some other positives.
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.
November 02, 2021 by George Kiagiadakis | News & Events
Today marks a very exciting day as Fedora 35 has now been released, and with it comes WirePlumber as the default session manager for PipeWire! Under development by Collabora since 2019, WirePlumber has now entered the linux desktop space.
September 24, 2021 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Collaborans will be actively participating in next week's activities with seven talks on topics including Rust build scripts, embedded deep learning on GStreamer, HEVC decoding on mainline Linux, PipeWire and WirePlumber, and more.
September 21, 2021 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | News & Events
This important milestone is a step forward for the open source driver, as it now certifies Panfrost for use in commercial products containing Mali G52 and paves the way for further conformance submissions on other Mali GPUs.
September 16, 2021 by Stéphane Cerveau | News & Events
GStreamer can be tricky to ship in a constrained device. Thanks to a partnership with Huawei, you can now use gst-build to generate a minimal GStreamer build, tailored to a specific application, or set of applications. Here's how.
September 07, 2021 by Nícolas F. R. A. Prado | News & Events
With an ever-increasing interest in more modern hardware support, and a more reliable kernel that is thoroughly tested, contributions by Collabora's developers continue to help make this a reality for the Linux kernel.
September 01, 2021 by Mark Filion | News & Events
September's busy conference schedule kicks off next week with the Fall edition of Linaro Virtual Connect. Join us as we look at how to master your PipeWire streams with WirePlumber, and de-mystify GFX virtualization with VirGL!
July 20, 2021 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | News & Events
After a month of reverse-engineering the Arm Mali G78, we’re excited to release documentation on the Valhall instruction set, available as a PDF, as well as a Valhall assembler and disassembler to be used as a reverse-engineering aid.
July 08, 2021 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | News & Events
Collabora's team working directly on the Linux kernel is growing. Collaborans continue to expand on their efforts to close the gap between hardware support on vendor trees and mainline.
June 21, 2021 by Shreeya Patel | News & Events
Earlier this month, Collabora took part in the very first KernelCI hackfest, initiated as a joint effort with the Google Chrome OS team. Here's a look at what led to our participation and what was accomplished.
June 21, 2021 by Erica Ryoo | News & Events
Despite the many obstacles brought on by the pandemic, Collabora has continued to grow its teams for the road ahead. Join us in welcoming Kiril, Benjamin, Daniel, Shreeya, Ariel, Nicolas and James!
June 07, 2021 by Alexandros Frantzis | News & Events
We first announced our work on the driver last December, and posted an update earlier this year. We are now happy to announce a second update for this driver, adding several major features which increase its scope and utility.
June 02, 2021 by Marius Vlad | News & Events
Simplifying AGL's existing Wayland-based graphical stack and avoiding the use of modules that aren't maintained upstream has lead to the creation of a new compositor based on libweston, bringing more reliable and fine-grained system control.
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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
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