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Edinburgh, continued!

October 25, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

After three great days attending and catching up with the community at ELCE, Collaborans are continuing their stay in Edinburgh to take part in the GStreamer Conference & Hackfest, the Linux Media Summit and the Automated Testing Summit.

Edinburgh, continued!

Linux Kernel 4.19

October 22, 2018 by Helen Koike  |   News & Events

As the curtains rose on opening day of Embedded Linux Conference Europe & Open Source Summit Europe in Edinburgh, the latest release of the Linux Kernel, 4.19, was made available by Greg Kroah-Hartman. Collaborans were once again very active.

Linux Kernel 4.19

On the low adoption of automated testing in FOSS

October 18, 2018 by Alexandros Frantzis  |   Blog

For projects of any value and significance, having a comprehensive automated test suite is nowadays considered a standard software engineering practice. Why, then, don't we see more prominent FOSS projects employing this practice?

On the low adoption of automated testing in FOSS

Embedded Linux in Edinburgh

October 18, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Next week, Collabora will be sponsoring, exhibiting & speaking at Embedded Linux Confererence Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Now in its 13th year, ELCE is the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using embedded Linux.

Embedded Linux in Edinburgh

Automotive Grade Linux AMM

October 15, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

This week, two Collaborans will be in Dresden, Germany to take part in the AGL All Member Meeting. George Kiagiadakis and Daniel Stone will be in attendance, with the former also giving a presentation on the latest happenings in upstream multimedia.

Automotive Grade Linux AMM

Recently in Geoclue

October 12, 2018 by Zeeshan Ali  |   Blog

After I started working for Collabora in April, I've finally been able to put some time on maintenance and development of Geoclue again. While I've fixed quite a few issues on the backlog, there has been some significant changes as of late.

Recently in Geoclue

FOSSCOMM

October 12, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

We're headed to Heraklion, Greece, to meet with the Panhellenic FOSS community at FOSSCOMM, a conference for programmers, students and anyone else interested in the open source movement!

FOSSCOMM

The beauty of Open Source

October 10, 2018 by Martyn Welch  |   Blog

Like all software, Open Source software isn't without it's bugs and issues. However, thanks to the nature of Open Source, resolving or mitigating the issue you encountered can be quite the satisfying adventure when it comes to scratching the itch.

The beauty of Open Source

MicroDebConf Brasilia

October 02, 2018 by Lucas Kanashiro  |   Blog

Last month, the first "MicroDebConf" took place at the Gama campus of the University of Brasilia. Here's a look at how this one day event came to be, and what was accomplished during that day.

MicroDebConf Brasilia

Paris, A Coruna & Berlin

September 20, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Next week, Collaborans will be heading to Paris, A Coruña & Berlin, to sponsor and speak at four different conferences: Embedded Recipes, Kernel Recipes, All Systems Go and XDC 2018. See you there?

Paris, A Coruna & Berlin

Virtme: The kernel developers' best friend

September 18, 2018 by Ezequiel Garcia  |   Blog

When working on the Linux Kernel, testing via QEMU is pretty common. Here's a look at virtme, a QEMU wrapper that uses the host instead of a virtual disk, making working with QEMU extremely easy.

Virtme: The kernel developers' best friend

Open Source at IBC

September 10, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

From September 14 to 18, Collabora will be exhibiting at the IBC Show 2018, the "world's most influential media, entertainment and technology show"! If you are planning on attending, please make sure to stop by our booth, D-15 in Hall 14!

Open Source at IBC

Building Tyr in Rust: CSF architecture and booting the MCU

May 14, 2026 by Daniel Almeida  |   Blog

See how Tyr moves beyond MCU firmware boot to build the group, queue, VM, submission, and completion paths needed to run real Vulkan workloads on Mali CSF GPUs.

Building Tyr in Rust: CSF architecture and booting the MCU

Optimizing memory access in NIR

May 07, 2026 by Faith Ekstrand  |   Blog

A complete breakdown of Mesa’s NIR compiler detailing how it optimizes shader memory access with SSA promotion, deref analysis, copy propagation, and store elimination to reduce memory traffic and improve GPU performance.

Optimizing memory access in NIR

BlueZ-powered Auracast broadcasting on Genio 700

May 05, 2026 by George Kiagiadakis  |   Blog

Collabora brought Bluetooth Auracast broadcasting to MediaTek Genio 700 for Embedded World 2026. Here's the complete, fully Open Source setup featuring Debian, BlueZ, PipeWire, with all the code and configs from our live booth demo.

BlueZ-powered Auracast broadcasting on Genio 700

Making the invisible audible: Building an OpenXR experience for ocean protection

April 22, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   Blog

Using our XR expertise, Collabora created a standalone XR experience for our 1% for the Planet partner, SOMAR, to showcase the direct impact of underwater noise pollution on marine life.

Making the invisible audible: Building an OpenXR experience for ocean protection

Bringing BitNet to ExecuTorch via Vulkan

April 17, 2026 by Vineet Suryan  |   Blog

BitNet-style ternary brings LLM inference to ExecuTorch via its Vulkan backend, enabling much smaller, bandwidth-efficient models with portable GPU execution on edge devices. Presented at PyTorch Conference Europe 2026.

Bringing BitNet to ExecuTorch via Vulkan

Re-thinking framebuffers in PanVK

March 23, 2026 by Faith Ekstrand  |   Blog

PanVK’s new framebuffer abstraction for Mali GPUs removes OpenGL-specific constraints, unlocking more flexible tiled rendering features in Vulkan.

Re-thinking framebuffers in PanVK

Running Mainline Linux, U-Boot, and Mesa on Rockchip: A year in review

March 02, 2026 by Nicolas Frattaroli  |   Blog

Get the recap of Nicolas Frattaroli's FOSDEM talk detailing Rockchip’s mainline progress, including Vulkan 1.4 and NPU support as a vital path to sustainable, affordable hardware.

Running Mainline Linux, U-Boot, and Mesa on Rockchip:  A year in review

Now streaming: Collabora XDC 2025 presentations

December 02, 2025 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

As an active member of the freedesktop community, Collabora was busy at XDC 2025. Our graphics team delivered five talks, helped out in two more sessions, and ran a workshop for newcomers.

Now streaming: Collabora XDC 2025 presentations

Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio & Auracast on Linux systems

November 24, 2025 by George Kiagiadakis  |   Blog

LE Audio introduces a modern, low-power, low-latency Bluetooth® audio architecture that overcomes the limitations of classic Bluetooth® profiles. Get a detailed look at its features, how its supported on Linux, and what lies ahead.

Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio & Auracast on Linux systems

Strengthening KernelCI: New architecture, storage, and integrations

November 17, 2025 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

Collabora’s long-term leadership in KernelCI has delivered a completely revamped architecture, new tooling, stronger infrastructure, and deeper integrations—modernizing the entire ecosystem and enabling reliable, scalable upstream kernel testing.

Strengthening KernelCI: New architecture, storage, and integrations

Font recognition reimagined with FasterViT-2

November 11, 2025 by Marcus Edel  |   Blog

Collabora extended the AdobeVFR dataset and trained a FasterViT-2 font recognition model on millions of samples. The result is a state-of-the-art model for fine-grained font identification that can also be used for downstream tasks.

Font recognition reimagined with FasterViT-2

Expanding access to XR: Google Cardboard comes to Monado

October 31, 2025 by Frederic Plourde  |   Blog

Collabora has advanced Monado's accessibility by making the OpenXR runtime supported by Google Cardboard and similar mobile VR viewers so that even more can benefit from OpenXR.

Expanding access to XR: Google Cardboard comes to Monado

GStreamer Analytics, ElectricMaple & more for IBC 2025

September 03, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is headed to Amsterdam. Meet us at Booth A63 in Hall 14 as we showcase GStreamer Analytics combined with ML, hardware-accelerated video decoding in Dante Studio using GStreamer, remote rendering for standalone XR, and more!

GStreamer Analytics, ElectricMaple & more for IBC 2025

Collabora at OSS Europe 2025: Five talks, hands-on demos, and workshops!

August 19, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is heading to Amsterdam with talks, demos, and workshops covering Embedded Linux, KernelCI, Bluetooth & Auracast, mainline video capture for Rockchip, and more. Join us to see our latest open source work in action!

Collabora at OSS Europe 2025: Five talks, hands-on demos, and workshops!

Improvements to Mesa video decoding for Panfrost

August 13, 2025 by Eric Smith  |   News & Events

The Mesa 25.2 release introduces support for AFBC compressed YUV textures in the Panfrost driver for ARM Mali GPUs, enabling more efficient memory bandwidth and power usage in video playback and real-time texture processing.

Improvements to Mesa video decoding for Panfrost

Mesa 25.2 brings new hardware support for Nouveau users

August 04, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

Starting with Mesa 25.2, NVK will now advertise support for Blackwell (RTX 50xx series) and Kepler (most GT and GTX 600 series, most GTX 700 series, and some GTX 800 series) GPUs.

Mesa 25.2 brings new hardware support for Nouveau users

Kernel 6.16: Fine-tuning the details

July 31, 2025 by Julien Massot  |   News & Events

The latest Linux kernel brings enhanced MediaTek Platform enablement, Rockchip performance, and more. Collabora contributed to this release with no less than 22 authored contributors!

Kernel 6.16: Fine-tuning the details

PanVK now supports Vulkan 1.4

July 29, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   News & Events

PanVK has reached another milestone and will be officially supporting Vulkan 1.4 on V10! We're up-to-date with the latest version and are well caught up for this release.

PanVK now supports Vulkan 1.4

All roads lead to Brest: Collabora at DebConf25

July 09, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is proud to sponsor this year's annual Debian conference, taking place in Brest, France. Join us as we showcase the latest with Apertis, discuss Debian running on mobile devices, and more.

All roads lead to Brest: Collabora at DebConf25

Introducing Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver

July 07, 2025 by Daniel Almeida  |   News & Events

The last year has seen substantial progress on the DRM infrastructure required to write GPU drivers in Rust. Developed in collaboration with Arm and Google, Tyr is a new Rust-based DRM driver targeting CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs.

Introducing Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver

Build with confidence, sustain for the future: Collabora joins the Toradex Proven Partner Network

July 02, 2025 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

This partnership ensures customers can build embedded products with long-term maintenance viability that will meet the challenges of tomorrow, such as compliance with the CRA, all built on proven Toradex platforms and upstream-first software.

Build with confidence, sustain for the future: Collabora joins the Toradex Proven Partner Network

Collabora takes first place at ICME 2025 Grand Challenge

June 19, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Building on our Open Source strengths in AI and data-driven solutions, Collabora's ML team, led by Marcus Edel, Vineet Suryan, & Aaron Boxer, has taken first place in Track 3 of the ICME 2025 Grand Challenge on Video Super-Resolution for Video Conferencing.

Collabora takes first place at ICME 2025 Grand Challenge

Meet Boardswarm, a new Open Source tool for board management and distributed development

June 17, 2025 by Martyn Welch  |   News & Events

Improving access, flexibility, and CI integration for development boards, making it easier for developers to work with embedded hardware, no matter where they are.

Meet Boardswarm, a new Open Source tool for board management and distributed development

Industry week in focus: ISC, AWE & InfoComm take the stage

June 02, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Next week Collabora will be covering a lot of ground, attending 3 separate events in 3 different time zones: ISC High Performance, Augmented World Expo, and InfoComm! Catch up with us at one of these events.

Industry week in focus: ISC, AWE & InfoComm take the stage

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Upcoming Events

Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!

RustWeek

May 18 - 23, Utrecht, Netherlands
 

IEEE ICC

May 24 - 28, Glasgow, UK

 

Linux Media Summit

May 26, Nice, France

 

Embedded Recipes

May 27 - 28, Nice, France

 

PipeWire Hackfest

May 29 - 30, Nice, France

 

Display Next Hackfest

May 29 - 31, Nice, France

 

GStreamer Spring Hackfest

May 29 - 31, Nice, France

 

BlueZ F2F

May 30 - 31, Nice, France


 

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