February 04, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
The first release candidate of Mesa 25.0 has recently shipped, bringing with it multiple updates to Panfrost, and most notably to PanVK, the open source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali GPUs.
January 29, 2025 by Frederic Plourde | News & Events
Collabora's involvement in Open Source XR development continues to grow today as we welcome the libsurvive project, the open source lighthouse tracking system, into the fold!
January 28, 2025 by Sebastian Fricke | News & Events
The latest Linux kernel release is here, bringing improvements to the DRM subsystem, further enablement of Rockchip SoCs, a new debugging guide for developers, and more! Here's a recap of Collabora's contributions for 6.13.
January 24, 2025 by Sebastian Fricke | News & Events
Collabora's deep involvement with the MediaTek community continued to shine this week with the release of Linux 6.13, which saw multiple improvements land for MediaTek SoCs.
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.
January 07, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
A testament to its long standing community interest and devote volunteers, FOSDEM will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Join us as we take the stage to discuss BlueZ, GStreamer, Open Source AI models, & more!
December 20, 2024 by Sebastian Reichel | News & Events
The Rockchip RK3588 upstream support has progressed a lot over the last few years. As 2024 comes to a close, it is a great time to have a look at the recent changes, work in progress, and the current state in general.
December 19, 2024 by Vineet Suryan | Blog
In the world of deep learning optimization, two powerful tools stand out: torch.compile, PyTorch’s just-in-time (JIT) compiler, and NVIDIA’s TensorRT, a platform for high-performance deep learning inference.
December 09, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora will be at NeurIPs this week to dive into the latest academic findings in machine learning and research advancements that are changing the industry.
December 05, 2024 by Dylan Aïssi | News & Events
Now based on Debian Bookworm, Apertis is a collaborative OS platform that includes an operating system, but also tools and cloud services to optimize development and increase reliability.
December 03, 2024 by Sebastian Reichel | News & Events
Initial support for Rockchip's RK3576, a new SoC introduced earlier this year, has landed in Linux kernel 6.12. With the main target being industrial applications, it is less of a powerhouse than the RK3588, but it still reuses many components.
December 02, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Today, Khronos announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 specification, and NVK is one of the day-zero conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementations! Vulkan 1.4 support in NVK has been merged into Mesa and will be part of the Mesa 25.0 release in early 2025.
June 09, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
After fighting with the divide between implicit and explicit synchronization with Vulkan on Linux for over seven years, we may finally have some closure. We're not to synchronization nirvana quite yet, but this is an important step along the way.
May 31, 2022 by Moses Turner | Blog
Optical hand tracking for XR has a bit of a reputation - getting training data, training neural nets, and deploying them in real-time, low-latency environments such as XR is every bit as hard as they say it is.
April 05, 2022 by Mateo de Mayo | Blog
Monado now has initial support for 6DoF ("inside-out") tracking for devices with cameras and an IMU! Three free and open source SLAM/VIO solutions were integrated and adapted to work on XR: Kimera-VIO, ORB-SLAM3, and Basalt.
March 30, 2022 by Xavier Claessens | Blog
When developing an application or a library, it is very common to want to run it without installing it, or to install it into a custom prefix rather than on the system. Here's how Meson can help with that.
March 23, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
An incredible amount has changed in Mesa and in the Vulkan ecosystems since we wrote the first Vulkan driver in Mesa for Intel hardware back in 2015. Not only has Vulkan grown, but Mesa has as well.
March 14, 2022 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | Blog
Every file system used in production has tools to try to recover from system crashes. To provide a better infrastructure for those tools, our kernel team developed FAN_FS_ERROR, a new fanotify event which monitors error notifications.
March 08, 2022 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
The PipeWire project made major strides over the past few years, bringing shiny new features, and paving the way for new possibilities in the Linux multimedia scene. A look what was accomplished in 2021, and what lies ahead for 2022.
February 08, 2022 by André Almeida | Blog
Over the past 18 months, we have been on a roller-coaster ride developing futex2, a new set of system calls. As part of this effort, the futex_waitv() syscall has now landed in Linux 5.16. But what exactly is futex?
January 27, 2022 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | Blog
Until now, no Valhall devices (Mali-G57, Mali-G78) ran mainline Linux - whilst this made driver development obviously difficult, there’s no better time to write drivers than before the devices even get into the hands of end users.
January 25, 2022 by Pekka Paalanen | Blog
My work on Wayland and Weston color management and HDR support has been full of learning new concepts and terms. Many of them are crucial for understanding how color works, and what the values in a pixel actually mean.
December 22, 2021 by Alexandros Frantzis | Blog
It has been just over a year since we first announced our effort to implement a Wayland driver for Wine. Here's a recap of what has been done since then to improve both the functionality and stability of the driver.
November 26, 2021 by Antonio Caggiano | Blog
A step-by-step guide on how to enable 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU through the new Venus experimental Vulkan driver for VirtIO-GPU with a local development environment.
June 30, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Collabora is proud to be sponsoring DebConf16, the annual Debian developers meeting, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2 July to 9 July 2016.
June 22, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
At Collabora, our multimedia team is always looking to improve QA tools in GStreamer. This week, we're introducing a new QA tool: a GStreamer tracer to track leaked objects.
June 07, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Collabora will be exhibiting at InfoComm 2016, the largest, most exciting event in the United States focused on the pro-AV industry, in Last Vegas on June 8-10, 2016.
May 18, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Linux Kernel 4.6 was released this week, with a total of 9 Collabora engineers taking part in its development, Collabora’s highest number of engineers contributing to a single Linux Kernel release yet!
May 13, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Starting today, 13 May, and throughout the weekend, four Collaborans will be attending the GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2016 in Thessaloniki, Greece!
April 11, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
On Thursday 28th of April in Paris, France Bosch and Collabora will be hosting the first Apertis hands-on session during the GENIVI AMM. The session will give everyone present an opportunity to work first hand with Apertis and produce applications to…
February 16, 2016 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Today sees the public release of Vulkan 1.0, the next-generation graphics API from the Khronos Group. As a member of Khronos, Collabora has been committed to improving EGL, OpenGL ES and OpenGL itself, and this continues with Vulkan.
December 17, 2015 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - from 09/02/2016 to 12/02/2016: We'll be exhibiting at ISE 2016, the world's largest tradeshow dedicated to professional AV and electronic systems integration. Collabora booth 8-K321
October 28, 2015 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Berlin, Germany - from 05/11/2015 to 07/11/2015: The systemd.conf is the first conference devoted to the systemd project. It aims to bring developers, distribution packagers and devops professionals together to present, discuss, and work on that topics that will shape the future of the systemd project.
October 28, 2015 by Mark Filion | News and Events
A Coruña, Spain - from 07/12/2015 to 09/12/2015: The Web Engines Hackfest is a hacking oriented invitation-only event involving members from all parts of the Web Platform community, including those who work on Blink, WebKit, Gecko, and Servo.
October 13, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events
Seoul, South Korea - From 20/10/2015 to 23/10/2015: We will be exhibiting at the GENIVI Showcase during the All Member Meeting.
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.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
February 1-2, Brussels, Belgium
March 11-13, Nuremberg, Germany