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News: We are hiring!

October 21, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Software engineering, quality assurance, project management, and Finance are all looking for great and talented people. Please check us out. https://www.collabora.com/about-us/careers.html

News: We are hiring!

Collabora contributions to the Linux kernel 3.17

October 11, 2014 by Javier Canillas  |   Blog

Collabora contributions to the Linux kernel 3.17

Collabora contributions to the Linux kernel 3.17

Improving the security of D-Bus

October 06, 2014 by Alban Crequy  |   Blog

Eight security issues were discovered, fixed and attributed a CVE.

Improving the security of D-Bus

Dynamic relocs, runtime overflows and -fPIC

October 01, 2014 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

A discussion of dynamic relocation, position independent code, the -fPIC flag and how it affects generated assembly. The focus would be on the practical implications of it all, including when to (and when not to) use -fPIC.

Dynamic relocs, runtime overflows and -fPIC

Event: GStreamer Conference 2014

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…

Event: GStreamer Conference 2014

A web browser for the Raspberry Pi

September 01, 2014 by Marco Barisione  |   Blog

Collabora has been working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation on various projects including a web browser optimised for the Raspberry Pi. Since the first beta release we have made huge improvements; now the browser is more responsive, it’s faster, and…

A web browser for the Raspberry Pi

GStreamer gains V4L2 Mem-2-Mem support

August 27, 2014 by Nicolas Dufresne  |   Blog

A team at Samsung (and many core Linux contributors) started adding new type of drivers to the Linux Media Infrastructure API (also known as Video4Linux 2).

GStreamer gains V4L2 Mem-2-Mem support

Event: IBC 2014

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

Event: IBC 2014

Wayland on MALI

August 13, 2014 by Daniel Stone  |   Blog

Predictable media latency, low power usage and vastly improved A/V sync. Wayland versus X11 explained on ARM MALI

Wayland on MALI

Event: SIGGRAPH 2014

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…

Event: SIGGRAPH 2014

News: In Cambridge, England 2014

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…

News: In Cambridge, England 2014

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

Yocto and OpenEmbedded at Collabora

April 15, 2016 by Andrew Shadura  |   Blog

How the use of Yocto and OpenEmbedded helps corporations migrate to free software.

Yocto and OpenEmbedded at Collabora

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.5

March 17, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

Linux Kernel 4.5 was released earlier this week, and once again Collabora engineers played a role in its development. In addition to their current projects, seven Collabora engineers contributed a total of 33 patches to the new Kernel.

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.5

A programmer's view on digital images: the essentials

February 16, 2016 by Pekka Paalanen  |   Blog

How is an uncompressed raster image laid out in computer memory? How is a pixel represented? What are stride and pitch and what do you need them for? How do you address a pixel in memory? How do you describe an image in memory? Pekka discusses the essential…

A programmer's view on digital images: the essentials

Vulkan 1.0 specification released with day-one support for Wayland

February 16, 2016 by Daniel Stone  |   Blog

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.

Vulkan 1.0 specification released with day-one support for Wayland

Community time at Collabora

February 12, 2016 by Andrew Shadura  |   Blog

Apart from upstreaming work which may be done for clients, Collabora encourages its engineers to spend up to two hours weekly for upstreaming, and use up to five days per year as Community days.

Community time at Collabora

GNOME DX Hackfest: xdg-app + Debian

February 01, 2016 by Simon McVittie  |   Blog

Over the last few days I've been at the GNOME Developer Experience hackfest in Brussels, looking into xdg-app and how best to use it in Debian and Debian derivatives.

GNOME DX Hackfest: xdg-app + Debian

Checking JSON files for correctness

January 27, 2016 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

As JSON becomes used more and more in place of XML, we need a replacement for tools like xmllint to check that JSON documents follow whatever format they are supposed to be following.

Checking JSON files for correctness

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.4

January 12, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

Linux Kernel 4.4 was released this week and Collabora engineers helped in the development of the new kernel in a few different areas. A total of 38 patches from 8 Collabora engineers were added, making it the kernel release with the most Collabora developers…

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.4

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.3

November 12, 2015 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

Collabora developers contributed a total of 48 patches to kernel 4.3 as part of our current projects.

Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.3

GLib now has a datagram interface

October 13, 2015 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

For those who like their I/O packetised, GLib now has a companion for its GIOStream class — the GDatagramBasedinterface, which we’ve implemented as part of R&D work at Collabora.

GLib now has a datagram interface

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

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

Your partner in adopting SRT

November 28, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

We're delighted to be one of the 33 new members of the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) Alliance, a group dedicated to accelerating interoperability of video streaming solutions and fostering collaboration with industry leaders to achieve lower latency…

Your partner in adopting SRT

Capitole du Libre

November 16, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

We're headed to France’s southern Occitanie region to attend and sponsor the 6th edition of Capitole du Libre, a weekend dedicated to free and Open Source software!

Capitole du Libre

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.14

November 13, 2017 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi  |   News & Events

Linux Kernel 4.14 is out, and once again Collabora developers were very active, contributing nearly 200 patches, reviews & sign-offs combined during this development cycle!

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.14

Linux Developer Conference Brazil

November 10, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

We're very excited to be sponsoring and speaking at the very first Linux Developer Conference Brazil, taking place on November 11 at the Instituto de Computação in Campinas!

Linux Developer Conference Brazil

European R-Car Consortium Forum

November 08, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

On November 8, we'll be in Düsseldorf, Germany, to take part & exhibit at the 1st edition of the Renesas European R-Car Consortium Forum, a one-day event aimed at bringing together OEMs and Tier1s to discuss the future of car mobility.

European R-Car Consortium Forum

Embedded Linux Conference Europe

October 20, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Following a weekend at the GStreamer Conference, Collabora will be continuing its week-long stay in Prague by sponsoring, exhibiting and speaking at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2017.

Embedded Linux Conference Europe

GStreamer Conference 2017

October 19, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

We're thrilled to be once again a platinum sponsor of the annual GStreamer Conference, taking place this weekend (October 21 & 22) at Node5 in Prague, Czech Republic. Come say hello, or catch one of the five presentations given by Collaborans!

GStreamer Conference 2017

Embedded & Kernel Recipes

September 25, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

This week, Collabora is heading to the city of lights, Paris, to sponsor and attend the very first (and sold-out!) edition of Embedded Recipes, as well as the 6th edition of Kernel Recipes!

Embedded & Kernel Recipes

XDC comes to Mountain View

September 20, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

The 2017 X.Org Developer's Conference kicks off today in Mountain View, California, and along with Collaborans attending & presenting, we're delighted to announce the first ever Collabora XDC Happy Hour!

XDC comes to Mountain View

Open Source Summit North America

September 11, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Collaborans will be giving five talks during this year's edition, which starts today in Los Angeles!

Open Source Summit North America

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.13

September 06, 2017 by Sebastian Reichel  |   News & Events

Linux Kernel 4.13 is out, with 12 Collabora developers having contributed, pairing up with 4.12 as another kernel release with our highest number of Collabora developers!

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.13

DebConf comes to Montreal!

August 04, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Collabora is proud to once again be a Gold Sponsor of this year's DebConf, the annual Debian conference for developers! This year's week-long conference takes place from August 6 to 12 at Collège de Maisonneuve in beautiful Montréal, where one of our…

DebConf comes to Montreal!

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