August 30, 2018 by Maxime Buquet | Blog
Earlier this month, Collabora sponsored & hosted the XMMP Sprint, the first developer event in the XMPP community in a long time. Here's a look at what was accomplished over the weekend, and what's next for this open standard.
August 29, 2018 by Guillaume Tucker | Blog
In addition to Collabora's work to add support in mainline Linux kernel for several Chromebooks, these platforms are now being continuously tested as part of kernelci.org. Here's how to set them up for kernel development & automated testing with LAVA.
August 28, 2018 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Starting tomorrow, Collaborans will be in beautiful British Columbia to take part, and speak, in this year's Open Source Summit North America! If you are planning on attending, come say hello or catch one of our presentations!
August 27, 2018 by Robert Foss | Blog
Working with a git based project that has a defacto upstream repository means that you perioducally want to fetch the canonical master branch. This can be simplified with a .gitconfig alias.
August 21, 2018 by Emil Velikov | Blog
A look at the work and motivation behind implementing the Khronos EGLDevice extensions in Mesa. These extensions allow users of open source graphics drivers to cleanly describe & select which device to use in heterogeneous systems.
August 13, 2018 by Ezequiel Garcia | News & Events
Another two months and a half have passed, Linux Kernel v4.18 has been released, which means it's time to stop along the way and make a little retrospective. This time around, seven Collaborans have contributed to the kernel, authoring 61 commits.
August 03, 2018 by Corentin Noël | Blog
GNOME Builder is an Integrated Development Environment designed for the GNOME ecosystem. It most notably features a deep integration to the Git version control system, allow to debug applications quickly and allow in-line documentation viewing.
August 01, 2018 by Robert Foss | Blog
Presenting a new, hardware-backed, software graphics driver, built upon the Mesa gallium driver framework, which uses kernel kms drm nodes for memory allocation.
July 31, 2018 by Jassie Badion | News & Events
Comprised of some of the most motivated and active Open Source contributors and maintainers around the world, our team shares a passion for technology and Open Source, as do these newest members. Welcome Gert, Gustavo, Erik, Christoph, Ryan & Ana!
July 26, 2018 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Collabora is heading East to sponsor & attend DebConf18, the annual Debian conference! The week-long event takes place for the first time in Asia, at the National Chiao Tung University Microelectronics & Information Research Center, in Hsinchu Taiwan.
July 04, 2018 by Arnaud Rebillout | Blog
Last week, a new version of docker.io, the Docker package provided by Debian, was uploaded to Debian Unstable. Quickly afterwards, the package moved to Debian Testing, the first time in two years that docker.io has migrated to "testing".
June 29, 2018 by Mark Filion | News & Events
By this time next week, Collaborans will have arrived in Almería, Spain, to attend and speak at the 2018 edition of GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference. Come say hello!
April 15, 2019 by Adrian Ratiu | Blog
The second part of this series takes a more in-depth look at the eBPF VM and program studied in the first part. Having this low level knowledge is not mandatory but can be a very useful foundation for the rest of the series.
April 05, 2019 by Adrian Ratiu | Blog
Interested in learning more about low-level specifics of the eBPF stack? Read on as we take a deep dive, from its VM mechanisms and tools, to running traces on remote, resource-constrained embedded devices.
April 01, 2019 by Robert Foss | Blog
It's now possible to run Android applications in the same graphical environment as regular Wayland Linux applications with full 3D acceleration. Here's a look at SPURV, our experimental containerized Android environment.
March 27, 2019 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz | Blog
In the previous post I introduced you to the subject of USB gadgets implemented as machines running Linux. In this post, we look at how to implement your very own USB function with FunctionFS and how to integrate that with systemd.
March 20, 2019 by André Almeida | Blog
In this tutorial, we'll look at how to create a functional and simple Arch Linux virtual machine image, that can have network access, display graphical windows and share a folder with the host.
March 13, 2019 by Robert Foss | Blog
During the past few months significant progress has been made on the Open Source Arm Mali GPU driver front, culminating in the Panfrost driver targeting Mali T and G-series of GPUs being available now.
March 12, 2019 by Helen Koike | Blog
With just a few simple steps, you can compile and boot a Raspberry Pi using the Linux kernel mainline source code. Here's how.
March 05, 2019 by Lucas Kanashiro | Blog
Since the last Debian release, a number of changes have been made in the Debian Cloud Team, both on the technical & organisational level within the community. Here's a look at what's in store for Buster!
March 04, 2019 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog
Following two months of work to develop a new kernel driver for Midgard and Bifrost GPUs, the kernel side of Panfrost is now in a form close to be acceptable in the mainline Linux kernel.
February 18, 2019 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz | Blog
A look at how to implement USB gadget devices on Linux machines which have the necessary UDC hardware, automate the manual configfs process via declarative gadget "schemes", and use systemd for gadget composition at boot time.
February 15, 2019 by Mark Filion | Blog
From the latest on Open Source projects Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) and VirGL (virtual 3D GPU for QEMU), to a state of the union on GStreamer embedded, and a look at how the KernelCI project is getting a second breath, Collaborans presented in five devrooms.
January 07, 2019 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog
Panfrost, a project that delivers an open source implementation of a driver for the newest versions of the Mali family of GPUs, now includes support for running Wayland compositors and zero-copy GPU-accelerated clients.
May 22, 2025 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Monado's first stable release of 2025 is here. From enhanced Android support and driver updates to improved runtime stability and tooling, Collabora's XR team delivered a wide array of improvements for the cross-platform, open source OpenXR runtime.
May 01, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us in Stuttgart, Germany for XR EXPO 2025! This two-day event will be the meeting place for the XR community to exchange ideas and explore the latest trends.
April 22, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
As of today, NVK is a conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementation for NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs, and will be enabled by default starting with Mesa 25.1.
April 17, 2025 by Eleni Katsoula | News & Events
Our commitment to open source extends beyond contributing code. We are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of license compliance throughout our development processes.
April 15, 2025 by Mark Filion | News & Events
This May, Embedded Recipes 2025, co-sponsored by Collabora, heads to Nice, France with talks, workshops, and a PipeWire hackfest, all bookended by the Linux Media Summit and the GStreamer Spring Hackfest!
April 14, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
PanVK has reached a new milestone, and is now officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.1 specification on the Arm Mali-G610 GPU! The submission was done from the Mesa 25.0.2 release, and covers both armhf as well as aarch64 architectures.
April 10, 2025 by Daniel Stone | News & Events
Three demos. One stand. From end-to-end HDR and a brand-new SoC running PanVK, to NVK and WebGPU out of the box — discover how Collabora pushed open source graphics forward at Embedded World 2025.
April 09, 2025 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
Collabora once again played a key role in the latest release of GStreamer, contributing enhancements such as improved hardware efficiency, support for the MPEG-5 LCEVC codec, and better integration for analytics and machine learning.
March 26, 2025 by Cristian Ciocaltea | News & Events
The kernel release emphasizes the continuing growth and maturity of the Linux ecosystem and delivers new features, improvements, and optimizations that everyone will be eager to explore. See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release.
March 26, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is thrilled to see its partner, Hololight, join the Khronos Group and become an active member of the OpenXR Working Group. We are excited to support their innovative approach and rapid expansion in the XR streaming space.
March 11, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Starting with Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will no longer get the old Nouveau OpenGL driver by default and will instead get Zink+NVK.
March 10, 2025 by Sjoerd Simons | News & Events
Towards the end of 2024, MediaTek and Collabora started on a journey to improve upstream support for MediaTek Genio devices. Here's where things stand.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
May 20-23, Taipei, Taiwan