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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

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.15

January 29, 2018 by Gustavo Padovan  |   News & Events

Linux Kernel 4.15 was released yesterday, and it once again contained patches contributed by Collabora, including bigger patchsets like V4L2 Explicit Synchronization and UTF-8 case insensitive lookups for EXT4.

Collabora & Linux Kernel 4.15

FOSDEM: Two days, a dozen talks!

January 26, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Brussels, here we come! We're thrilled to be sponsoring this year's edition of FOSDEM, taking place in just over a week's time (February 3 & 4), at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Come say hello, or catch one of a dozen talks given by Collaborans!

FOSDEM: Two days, a dozen talks!

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

Outreachy - Round 15

December 19, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

For a second time this year, Collabora is proud to be sponsoring the latest round (Round 15) of Outreachy internships! More specifically, Collabora has chosen to sponsor the Linux kernel projects for the December 2017 - March 2018 semester.

Outreachy - Round 15

12 reasons to join Collabora

December 14, 2017 by Jassie Badion  |   News & Events

With less than 12 days to go before Christmas, here are 12 reasons, from 12 different people who became Collaborans this year, on why you should consider joining our team!

12 reasons to join Collabora

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

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

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

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.

Lucid sleep in the free desktop

Tracking the reference count of a GstMiniObject using gdb

April 13, 2015 by Guillaume Desmottes  |   Blog

Debugging GStreamer

Tracking the reference count of a GstMiniObject using gdb

Blink started supporting font-size-adjust css property

March 26, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh  |   Blog

Blink font-size-adjust via CSS properties

Blink started supporting font-size-adjust css property

JPEG-XR support on blink

March 21, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh  |   Blog

JPEG-XR support on browsing technologies

JPEG-XR support on blink

Weston repaint scheduling

February 11, 2015 by Pekka Paalanen  |   Blog

Latest Weston features

Weston repaint scheduling

GNOME programming guidelines: the rise of gnome-devel-docs

February 11, 2015 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

Check out the new GNOME Programming Guidelines and file bugs in Bugzilla.

GNOME programming guidelines: the rise of gnome-devel-docs

Crosswalk and its JS, JAVA and Native Extensions performance

February 05, 2015 by Danilo Cesar  |   Blog

A brief discussion about Crosswalk’s JS, JAVA and Native Extensions performance

Crosswalk and its JS, JAVA and Native Extensions performance

Open source machine learning at IBC 2022

September 06, 2022 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Showcasing two new software demonstrations featuring machine learning, including backend video compression that runs on Panfrost, and a data quality assurance tool designed to integrate into the annotation pipeline.

Open source machine learning at IBC 2022

Last chance to submit to FOSS XR!

August 30, 2022 by Frédéric Plourde  |   News & Events

Be part of the FOSSXR lineup by submitting your talk by September 5th, 2022. That means there's one week left for all you AR and VR enthusiasts and industry movers to share your exciting XR projects/news/demos with the world.

Last chance to submit to FOSS XR!

Fostering connections at Open Source Summit Latin America

August 16, 2022 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

A magnet for open source supporters, the very first edition of Open Source Summit Latin America is opening its virtual doors. This new annual conference takes place online from August 23 to 24 with 5 talks from Collabora's very own!

Fostering connections at Open Source Summit Latin America

Kernel 5.19: Probably the final release of the 5.x series

August 02, 2022 by Cristian Ciocaltea  |   News & Events

As usual, there are quite a few changes merged into the mainline kernel. Let's take a look at some of the contributions by Collabora's kernel team!

Kernel 5.19: Probably the final release of the 5.x series

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.

Weston 10.0.1 - a bug-fix release

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.

Adding even more heads for the group picture

Emerging ideas at Open Source Summit North America

June 16, 2022 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Big events draw in an array of individuals to learn and connect, and the Open Source Summit North America is no exception. Jam-packed with sessions to uncover from June 21 to 24, this year's event features three talks by Collabora's very own!

Emerging ideas at Open Source Summit North America

Conformant open source support for Mali-G57

June 06, 2022 by Alyssa Rosenzweig  |   News & Events

Mali-G57 features in new MediaTek Chromebooks with the MT8192 and MT8195 system-on-chips. With Mesa 22.2 and an appropriate kernel, accelerated graphics will work out of the box on Linux on these laptops.

Conformant open source support for Mali-G57

Kernel 5.18: Milestones for the road ahead

June 02, 2022 by Dmitry Osipenko  |   News & Events

Released by Linus Torvalds on May 22 after a busy two-month development cycle, Linux kernel 5.18 brings new features and lights up new hardware. Let's take a look at the contributions made by our engineering team.

Kernel 5.18: Milestones for the road ahead

Finding the secret ingredient at Embedded and Kernel Recipes

May 26, 2022 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

After a two-year hiatus, the City of Lights is shinning brightly again to welcome the community for a full week of engaging talks at Embedded Recipes and Kernel Recipes conferences.

Finding the secret ingredient at Embedded and Kernel Recipes

Talks of the town: Software engineering edition

May 17, 2022 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Less than a day away, May 18th looks to be a very busy time. With Live Embedded Event and Embedded Vision Summit taking place almost simultaneously, Collabora will be presenting four different talks!

Talks of the town: Software engineering edition

PipeWire: Bluetooth support status update

April 29, 2022 by Frederic Danis  |   News & Events

Over the last two years, Bluetooth® audio support has steadily grown in PipeWire and has become a featureful, stable, conformant, open source Bluetooth® audio stack implementation. Here's a look at where things stand.

PipeWire: Bluetooth support status update

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