October 24, 2016 by Héctor Orón Martínez | Blog
openSUSE distributions’ build system is based on a generic framework named Open Build Service (OBS), I have been using these tools in my work environment, and I have to say, as Debian developer, that it is a great tool. In this blog post I plan for you…
October 18, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
In the first part we covered the main concepts behind Explicit Synchronization for the Linux Kernel. Now in the second part of the series we are going to look to the Android Sync Framework, the first (out-of-tree) Explicit Fencing implementation for the…
October 13, 2016 by Lubosz Sarnecki | Blog
Being someone who has already experimented with two transformation box approaches for Pitivi in the past, maintainers thought I might be the right person to do a modern one. Creating a user interface for a video transformation requires three things: the…
October 07, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Collabora is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of this year's GStreamer Conference, taking place at the Betahaus in Berlin, Germany on 10-11 October 2016. Come say hello, or catch one of the four presentations given by Collaborans during the conference!
October 06, 2016 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
I had a great time last week and the Web Engines Hackfest! It was the 7th web hackfest hosted by Igalia and the 7th hackfest I attended. I’m almost a local Galician already. Brazilian Portuguese being so close to Galician certainly helps! Collabora co-sponsored…
October 03, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
Linux Kernel 4.8 is out and once more Collabora engineers did a significant contribution to the Kernel. For this latest release, Collabora provided 101 patches from 8 engineers, our biggest contribution to date in single kernel release!
September 22, 2016 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
Next week our friends at Igalia will be hosting this year’s Web Engines Hackfest. Collabora will be there! We are gold sponsors, and have three developers attending. It will also be an opportunity to celebrate Igalia’s 15th birthday. Looking forward to…
September 19, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
This fall, we're thrilled to be sponsoring not one, but five great conferences!
September 13, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
When it comes to buffer sharing synchronization in the kernel there are two ways of doing it: Implicit Fencing and Explicit Fencing. The difference between them relies on the fact that the kernel may or may not share synchronization information with userspace,…
September 05, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Collabora will be exhibiting at IBC 2016, the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide.
September 02, 2016 by Robert Foss | Blog
Developing Linux for Android on Qemu allows you to do some things that are not necessarily possible using the stock emulator. For my purposes I need access to a GPU and be able to modify the driver, which is where Virgilrenderer and Qemu comes in handy.
August 23, 2016 by Helen Fornazier | Blog
Nowadays, in Google Cloud Engine (GCE), it is possible to attach a local SSD with the NVMe interface to your virtual machine. Unfortunately, you only get a good number of iops (input/output operations per second) if you instantiate a machine with nvme-backports-debian-7-wheezy…
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.
February 27, 2025 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
If you are considering deploying BlueZ on your embedded Linux device, the benefits in terms of flexibility, community support, and long-term maintainability make it a worthwhile investment.
January 15, 2025 by Gert Wollny | Blog
With VirGL, Venus, and vDRM, virglrenderer offers three different approaches to obtain access to accelerated GFX in a virtual machine. Here are the latest updates around each of these approaches.
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…
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
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…
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…
July 17, 2014 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events
Raspberry Pi Today interviews Collabora's Daniel Stone about Collabora and the Raspberry Pi Foundation's work on Wayland and WebKit.
June 19, 2014 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events
Tokyo, Japan July 1-2, 2014: The Automotive Linux Summit will bring together the most innovative minds from automotive expertise and open-source excellence.
June 19, 2014 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events
Collabora introduces our new brand and logo
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
June 30-July 4, Nantes, France
July 9-10, Berlin, Germany
July 14-20, Brest, France