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Kernel 6.14: Enhanced hardware capabilities, improved performance & more!

March 26, 2025 by Cristian Ciocaltea  |   News & Events

The kernel release emphasizes the continuing growth and maturity of the Linux ecosystem and delivers new features, improvements, and optimizations that everyone will be eager to explore. See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release.

Kernel 6.14: Enhanced hardware capabilities, improved performance & more!

Hololight joins the OpenXR momentum

March 26, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is thrilled to see its partner, Hololight, join the Khronos Group and become an active member of the OpenXR Working Group. We are excited to support their innovative approach and rapid expansion in the XR streaming space.

Hololight joins the OpenXR momentum

Goodbye Nouveau GL. Hello Zink!

March 11, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

Using Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old OpenGL driver, shifting towards an OpenGL on Vulkan.

Goodbye Nouveau GL. Hello Zink!

MediaTek Genio update: Kernel, Debian 13 images, and KernelCI

March 10, 2025 by Sjoerd Simons  |   News & Events

Towards the end of 2024, MediaTek and Collabora started on a journey to improve upstream support for MediaTek Genio devices. Here's where things stand.

MediaTek Genio update: Kernel, Debian 13 images, and KernelCI

Apertis v2025: the second Bookworm-based release for industrial embedded devices

March 07, 2025 by Dylan Aïssi  |   News & Events

Apertis v2025 has landed with all the updates from Debian 12.9. This release has a variety of updates including new supported boards, improved release processes, and more!

Apertis v2025: the second Bookworm-based release for industrial embedded devices

Embedded World 2025

February 27, 2025 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Join us at the NürnbergMesse in Nuremberg, Germany, as we take part in Embedded World 2025, one of the largest trade fairs of its kind, and a global platform for the embedded community!

Embedded World 2025

Implementing Bluetooth on embedded Linux: Open source BlueZ vs proprietary stacks

February 27, 2025 by George Kiagiadakis  |   Blog

If you are considering deploying BlueZ on your embedded Linux device, the benefits in terms of flexibility, community support, and long-term maintainability make it a worthwhile investment.

Implementing Bluetooth on embedded Linux: Open source BlueZ vs proprietary stacks

12 years of incubating Wayland color management

February 24, 2025 by Pekka Paalanen  |   News & Events

It's been a long road for Wayland's recently landed color management extension. We take a brief look back at how this latest feature was formed.

12 years of incubating Wayland color management

Breaking language barriers: Fine-tuning Whisper for Hindi

February 19, 2025 by Vineet Suryan  |   News & Events

We're proud to announce that Whisper is now available in Hindi! With 2,500 hours of Hindi speech data and innovative techniques like Indic Normalization, this model sets a new benchmark for Hindi ASR.

Breaking language barriers: Fine-tuning Whisper for Hindi

Mesa 25.0: PanVK moves towards production quality

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.

Mesa 25.0: PanVK moves towards production quality

Welcoming the libsurvive project

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!

Welcoming the libsurvive project

Kernel 6.13: A flawless end of the year

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.

Kernel 6.13: A flawless end of the year

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

Debian Jessie on Raspberry Pi 2

February 03, 2015 by Sjoerd Simons  |   Blog

Debian Jessie running on Raspberry Pi 2

Debian Jessie on Raspberry Pi 2

WebKit on the new Raspberry Pi 2

February 02, 2015 by Marco Barisione  |   Blog

Raspberry PI 2 release announcement!

WebKit on the new Raspberry Pi 2

A checklist for writing pkg-config files

December 09, 2014 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

Differences between pkg-config variables, the use of AX_PKG_CHECK_MODULES, and what to include in custom variables. automake and autoconf snippets are provided

A checklist for writing pkg-config files

Recent improvements in libnice

October 31, 2014 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

libnice upstream improvements done at Collabora

Recent improvements in libnice

Introduction to ICE and libnice

October 31, 2014 by Philip Withnall  |   Blog

Introductory talk on libnice (done as part of Collabora's tea time training)

Introduction to ICE and libnice

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

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

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!

Upcoming events: GUADEC & SIGGRAPH

July 27, 2017 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Over the next few days, Collaborans will be getting back on the road and attending two events, one in Manchester and one in Los Angeles. We're also very pleased to be sponsoring one of these events!

Upcoming events: GUADEC & SIGGRAPH

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