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Quick hack: git reset upstream

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.

Quick hack: git reset upstream

En route to a robust GPU device selection in GL

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.

En route to a robust GPU device selection in GL

Linux Kernel 4.18

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.

Linux Kernel 4.18

Cross-compilation made easy for GNOME Builder

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.

Cross-compilation made easy for GNOME Builder

kms_swrast: A hardware-backed graphics driver

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.

kms_swrast: A hardware-backed graphics driver

Collabora continues to grow

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!

Collabora continues to grow

DebConf18

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.

DebConf18

The docker.io Debian package is back to life

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".

The docker.io Debian package is back to life

GUADEC 2018

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!

GUADEC 2018

Introducing debos, a versatile images generator

June 27, 2018 by Ana Guerrero López  |   Blog

In Debian and derivative systems, there are many ways to build images. The simplest tool of choice is often debootstrap. It works by downloading the .deb files from a mirror and unpacking them into a directory which can eventually be chrooted into.

Introducing debos, a versatile images generator

Secure video comes of age

June 25, 2018 by Olivier Crête  |   Blog

Launched by Haivision in 2017, and freely available on GitHub via the Mozilla Public License 2.0, SRT is an innovative UDP-based protocol enabling high-quality, low-latency video streaming across unpredictable networks.

Secure video comes of age

GStreamer CI support for embedded devices

June 11, 2018 by Omar Akkila  |   Blog

Embedded devices are a popular deployment target for GStreamer yet they are not tested on the project's Continuous Integration (CI) system. Here's a look at work done to introduce a Raspberry Pi for automated on-board testing using Jenkins, LAVA & more.

GStreamer CI support for embedded devices

Google Open Source Peer Bonus

March 01, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

Today, Google Open Source announced their first 2018 Open Source Peer Bonus winners, and our graphics lead, Daniel Stone, made the list!

Google Open Source Peer Bonus

FOSDEM - Links to recorded presentations (videos)

February 21, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

From an introduction to Flatpak, to managing build infrastructure of a Debian derivative, to modern tools to debug GStreamer, Collaborans presented in six different developer rooms, as well as in the main track, at FOSDEM 2018.

FOSDEM - Links to recorded presentations (videos)

SRT, typical examples

February 20, 2018 by Justin Kim  |   Blog

Released earlier this month, the latest version of VLC, the free & open source multimedia player (which also uses the GStreamer framework) now contains SRT modules which had been in development in VLC's master branch.

SRT, typical examples

SRT in GStreamer

February 16, 2018 by Olivier Crête  |   Blog

Transmitting low delay, high quality video over the Internet is hard. The trade-off is normally between video quality and transmission delay (or latency). Internet video has up to now been segregated into two segments: video streaming and video calls.

SRT in GStreamer

LVEE Winter Edition 2018

February 13, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

Following a great weekend in Brussels for FOSDEM, Collaborans headed east to Belarus to attend & speak at the winter session of the international conference for free/libre open source software developers and users, LVEE.

LVEE Winter Edition 2018

Virtualizing GPU Access

February 12, 2018 by Robert Foss  |   Blog

For the past few years a clear trend of containerization of applications and services has emerged. Having processes containerized is beneficial in a number of ways. It both improves portability and strengthens security.

Virtualizing GPU Access

Kernelci.org automated bisection

January 16, 2018 by Guillaume Tucker  |   Blog

The kernelci.org project aims at continuously testing the mainline Linux kernel, from stable branches to linux-next on a variety of platforms. When a revision fails to build or boot, kernel developers get informed via email reports.

Kernelci.org automated bisection

More to it than beer

January 10, 2018 by Guy Lunardi  |   Blog

Widely recognized as the best conference of its kind in Europe, the 2018 edition of FOSDEM promises to be no different, with a jam-packed schedule of over 600 lectures, lightning talks, developer rooms, and more.

More to it than beer

CEF on Wayland

December 22, 2017 by Gustavo Noronha  |   Blog

We recently assisted a customer who wanted to upgrade their system from X11 to Wayland. The problem: they use CEF as a runtime for web applications and CEF was not Wayland-ready.

CEF on Wayland

Why Linux HDCP isn't the end of the world

December 11, 2017 by Daniel Stone  |   Blog

Recently, Sean Paul from Google's ChromeOS team, submitted a patch series to enable HDCP - or High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection - support for the Intel display driver.

Why Linux HDCP isn't the end of the world

Quick hack: Building ChromiumOS for QEMU

December 01, 2017 by Robert Foss  |   Blog

Getting ChromiumOS building is reasonably easy, but running it under QEMU requires some work. Here's a guide to help you build all of the software needed to do so.

Quick hack: Building ChromiumOS for QEMU

Running Chromium with Ozone-GBM on a GNU/Linux desktop

November 27, 2017 by Alexandros Frantzis  |   Blog

Ozone is Chromium’s next-gen platform abstraction layer for graphics and input. When developing either Ozone itself or an application that uses Ozone, it is often beneficial to be able to run the code on the development machine, which is usually a typical…

Running Chromium with Ozone-GBM on a GNU/Linux desktop

Growing our Core, Graphics & Web teams

June 27, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Our worldwide team of Open Source engineers and developers continues to grow with new additions in Core, Graphics & Web! Welcome Denis Pynkin, Alexandros Frantzis and Santosh Mahto!

Growing our Core, Graphics & Web teams

Outreachy 2017

June 02, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Collabora is proud to once again be sponsoring the latest round (Round 14) of Outreachy internships, which began earlier this week! More specifically, Collabora has chosen to sponsor the Linux kernel projects for the May-August semester.

Outreachy 2017

Three days, two exhibits, three talks

May 30, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Over the next few days, Collabora is very excited to be taking part in three events where we'll be exhibiting as well as giving talks: Augmented World Expo, Automotive Linux Summit and Open Source Summit Japan.

Three days, two exhibits, three talks

VR World, GStreamer, OSS, Vulkanised!

May 16, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

On the road again! Collaborans are heading to London, A Coruña & Buenos Aires to attend a VR event, a hackfest, a conference on Open Source systems, and a day of technical sessions on Vulkan! See you there?

VR World, GStreamer, OSS, Vulkanised!

Collabora at GENIVI AMM

May 08, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

From May 9 to 11, Collabora will be attending the GENIVI All Member Meeting & Open Community Days: Advancing Connected Vehicles in a Connected World, in Birmingham, UK!

Collabora at GENIVI AMM

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.11

May 01, 2017 by Helen Fornazier  |   News & Events

Linux Kernel 4.11 was released yesterday, and 9 different Collabora developers contributed a total of 44 patches, while also reviewing 22 other patches.

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.11

Upcoming events: VR, NAB & Khronos

April 18, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Collaborans are once again hitting the road and will be attending three separate events over the next new two weeks, in London, Las Vegas and Amsterdam

Upcoming events: VR, NAB & Khronos

Release: libnice 0.1.14

April 03, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Today, Olivier Crête, libnice maintainer and Collabora Multimedia Lead, announced the availability of libnice 0.1.14, the latest release of the NAT traversal library implementing the RFC for Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE).

Release: libnice 0.1.14

Collabora in Linux Format

March 22, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Check out the April issue (#222) of Linux Format magazine for our new monthly column on all things Open Source, including graphics, multimedia and more!

Collabora in Linux Format

Two weeks, four events!

March 07, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Over the next two weeks, Collaborans will be present at four different events across the globe. If you plan on attending at any of these conferences, please reach out and say hello!

Two weeks, four events!

Embedded Linux Conference 2017

February 21, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Starting today, and for the next few days, Collaborans will be taking part in this year's Embedded Linux Conference North America, the "premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products".

Embedded Linux Conference 2017

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.10

February 20, 2017 by Gustavo Padovan  |   News and Events

Linux Kernel 4.10 is out, and this time Collabora contributed a total of 39 patches by 10 different developers.

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.10

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Upcoming Events

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

Embedded World

April 9-11, Nuremberg, Germany

 

ISC West

April 9-11, Las Vegas, USA

 

NAB Show

April 13-17, Las Vegas, USA

 

Open Source Summit North America

April 16-18, Seattle, USA

 

Khronos F2F

April 22-26, Brussels, Belgium

 

 

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