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Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.1

August 24, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog

Kernel.org Collabora contributions

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: 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: 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.

Alex's work experience at Collabora

August 06, 2015 by Alex Shtyrov | Blog

A student intership 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

Checking D-Bus API stability

June 02, 2015 by Philip Withnall | Blog

D-Bus API features

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.0

May 11, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog

Collabora upstream work on Linux kernel

Lucid sleep in the free desktop

May 01, 2015 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog

Describes ability of performing work while the machine is in a low power state such as suspend.

Tracking the reference count of a GstMiniObject using gdb

April 13, 2015 by Guillaume Desmottes | Blog

Debugging GStreamer

Blink started supporting font-size-adjust css property

March 26, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh | Blog

Blink font-size-adjust via CSS properties

JPEG-XR support on blink

March 21, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh | Blog

JPEG-XR support on browsing technologies

Linux isn't immune

March 14, 2018 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog

The recent disclosure of Meltdown and Spectre hardware vulnerabilities were unprecedented in the history of computing. They affect a substantial portion of chips powering most of the infrastructure used by our society today.

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!

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Weston 10.0.1 - a bug-fix release

July 05, 2022 by Marius Vlad | News & Events

The latest release of Weston was made on February 1, 2022. Meanwhile, a few bugs were discovered and we decided to do a bug-fix release, which we haven't had in several years.

Adding even more heads for the group picture

June 21, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events

Part steadfast approach - part welcoming spirirt; Collabora continues to successfully expand with new talent amply on deck. Well ahead of the remote work curve, our new joiners have settled into their roles from their respective corners of the planet.