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Event: GStreamer Conference 2015

September 28, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Dublin, Ireland - from 08/10/2015 to 09/10/2015: The GStreamer Conference is a conference for anyone interested in the GStreamer multimedia framework or Open Source and cross-platform multimedia.

Event: GStreamer Conference 2015

Celebrating 30 years. Happy 30th anniversary GNU

September 15, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   Blog

Standing on the shoulders of giants. As Collabora turns 10 years this month, we are forced to stop and marvel at the accomplishments of GNU in its 30 years of existence. Happy 30th anniversary GNU

Celebrating 30 years. Happy 30th anniversary GNU

Event: IBC 2015

September 05, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - from 10/09/2015 to 15/09/2015: we are thrilled to be joining ARM to demonstrate our latest technology showcases together at their booth at IBC 2015. Booth Hall 4.C61

Event: IBC 2015

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.2

August 25, 2015 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

Kernel.org Collabora contributions

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.2

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.1

August 24, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas  |   Blog

Kernel.org Collabora contributions

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.1

Event: LPC 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Seattle, USA - from 19/08/2015 to 21/08/2015: The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for those working on the “plumbing” of Linux.

Event: LPC 2015

Event: DebConf 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Heidelberg, Germany - from 15/08/2015 to 22/08/2015: The 16th annual Debian developers meeting.

Event: DebConf 2015

Event: GStreamer Hackfest 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Montpellier, France - from 14/08/2015 to 16/08/2015: GStreamer developers are meeting up to work on the project.

Event: GStreamer Hackfest 2015

Alex's work experience at Collabora

August 06, 2015 by Alex Shtyrov  |   Blog

A student intership experience at Collabora

Alex's work experience at Collabora

Why polkit (or, how to mount a disk on modern Linux)

June 08, 2015 by Simon McVittie  |   Blog

Why udisks2 and polkit are the way they are

Why polkit (or, how to mount a disk on modern Linux)

Checking D-Bus API stability

June 02, 2015 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

D-Bus API features

Checking D-Bus API stability

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.0

May 11, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas  |   Blog

Collabora upstream work on Linux kernel

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.0

Simplifying Bluetooth qualification for Linux/BlueZ: New upstream documentation

May 26, 2026 by Frederic Danis  |   Blog

New upstream BlueZ documentation helps simplify Bluetooth qualification for Linux-based products by mapping supported profiles, test requirements, software versions, and manual steps in one place.

Simplifying Bluetooth qualification for Linux/BlueZ: New upstream documentation

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

News: Raspberry Pi Today Interview

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.

News: Raspberry Pi Today Interview

Event: Automotive Linux Summit

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.

Event: Automotive Linux Summit

News: New Collabora website launches

June 19, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Collabora introduces our new brand and logo

News: New Collabora website launches

Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland...

May 23, 2013 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland...

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