April 10, 2017 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | Blog
Like the bug that no one can solve, many issues occur on the interface between the user application and the operating system. But even in the good Open Source world, understanding what is happening at these interfaces is not always easy.
April 05, 2017 by Daniel Stone | Blog
Today we all read the announcement of Ubuntu's decision to refocus on cloud and IoT activities, dropping Unity 8 to move back to a GNOME-based desktop for the 17.04 LTS.
April 03, 2017 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Today, Olivier Crête, libnice maintainer and Collabora Multimedia Lead, announced the availability of libnice 0.1.14, the latest release of the NAT traversal library implementing the RFC for Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE).
March 29, 2017 by Robert Foss | Blog
Android uses the HWC API to communicate with graphics hardware. This API is not supported on the mainline Linux graphics stack, but by using drm_hwcomposer as a shim it now is.
March 28, 2017 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | Blog
Like starting a car with the hood open, sometimes you need to run your program with certain analysis tools attached to get a full sense of what is going wrong – or right.
March 24, 2017 by Simon McVittie | Blog
At the GTK hackfest in London (which accidentally became mostly a Flatpak hackfest) I've mainly been looking into how to make D-Bus work better for app container technologies like Flatpak and Snap.
March 22, 2017 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Check out the April issue (#222) of Linux Format magazine for our new monthly column on all things Open Source, including graphics, multimedia and more!
March 21, 2017 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | Blog
Modern CPUs implement a number of technologies that may affect application performance in unpredictable ways. Figuring out what is going wrong with an application can be a hard task, but it can become much easier with the correct analysis tools.
March 13, 2017 by Frédéric Dalleau | Blog
Once you've setup a virtual machine in QEMU using debootstrap, there are a number of tools available for testing, tracing and debugging, such as Kmemleak for memory leaks, GDB (GNU Debugger), ftrace et dynamic_debug.
March 08, 2017 by Robert Foss | Blog
Before being able to write firmware data to any production Chromebook device, the Write-Protect screw has to be removed.
March 07, 2017 by Mark Filion | News and Events
Over the next two weeks, Collaborans will be present at four different events across the globe. If you plan on attending at any of these conferences, please reach out and say hello!
March 01, 2017 by Daniel Stone | Blog
The past few months have been busy ones on the open-source graphics front, bringing with them Wayland 1.13, Weston 2.0 and Mesa 17.0. Here's a look at some of these developments, including Collabora's behind-the-scenes work on performance improvement.
August 24, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog
Kernel.org Collabora contributions
August 06, 2015 by Alex Shtyrov | Blog
A student intership experience at Collabora
June 08, 2015 by Simon McVittie | Blog
Why udisks2 and polkit are the way they are
May 11, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog
Collabora upstream work on Linux kernel
May 01, 2015 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog
Describes ability of performing work while the machine is in a low power state such as suspend.
April 13, 2015 by Guillaume Desmottes | Blog
Debugging GStreamer
March 26, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh | Blog
Blink font-size-adjust via CSS properties
March 21, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh | Blog
JPEG-XR support on browsing technologies
February 11, 2015 by Philip Withnall | Blog
Check out the new GNOME Programming Guidelines and file bugs in Bugzilla.
February 05, 2015 by Danilo Cesar | Blog
A brief discussion about Crosswalk’s JS, JAVA and Native Extensions performance
March 05, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
As champions of open source development in the embedded community, Collabora will be at Booth 4-404 with an impressive lineup of live demonstrations spanning graphics, machine learning, continuous testing, and real-world applications.
February 25, 2026 by Detlev Casanova | News & Events
Support for Rockchip’s VDPU381 and VDPU383 decoders is now upstream in Linux, bringing mainline H.264/HEVC decode support, robust IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 UAPI controls aligned with Vulkan Video.
February 19, 2026 by Marius Vlad | News & Events
Weston 15.0 has arrived, bringing a brand new Lua-based shell for fully customizable window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and a host of improvements to color handling, media playback, and display performance.
February 18, 2026 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Collabora is excited to see Monado at the heart of the new OpenXR runtime for Android XR, a major milestone for Open Source XR interoperability.
February 17, 2026 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
With its latest release, GStreamer adds native support for AI inference engines including ONNX Runtime, LiteRT, and Burn, along with tensor decoders for YOLO, face detection, tracking, and more.
February 10, 2026 by Michael Riesch | News & Events
Collabora continues to be a key contributor to the Linux kernel, with 125 patches from 21 developers! Highlights include Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, Rust integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality.
January 15, 2026 by Sjoerd Simons | News & Events
With openwrt-one-debian, you can now install and run a full Debian system leveraging the OpenWrt One’s NVMe storage, enabling everything from custom services and containers to development tools and lightweight server workloads, all on open hardware.
January 13, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
At this year's edition of FOSDEM Collabora will be present with 7 talks! Join us to get the latest on video capture on Rockchip SoCs, Tyr, machine learning in GStreamer, and more!
December 24, 2025 by Alexandros Frantzis | News & Events
A deep dive on the current status of Chromium enablement on MediaTek Genio SoCs, including what the numbers look like when MediaTek’s hardware codecs are driven by Chromium’s V4L2 paths.
December 17, 2025 by Alexandros Frantzis | News & Events
As Chromium becomes the default UI runtime on embedded Linux devices, we’re closing long-standing V4L2 gaps and enabling efficient hardware video encoding and decoding on MediaTek platforms for both downstream and upstream.
December 10, 2025 by Frederic Plourde | News & Events
Released as UnitedXR wraps up in Brussels, this latest update to the cross-platform Open-Source OpenXR runtime delivers major improvements across hand tracking, device support, and the core runtime infrastructure.
December 04, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is headed to Tokyo for the Linux Plumbers Conference! Join us for our talks exploring stability for Rockchip boards, the latest Tyr Rust-based GPU, and more.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
April 7 - 8, Paris, France
April 13 - 18, Barcelona, Spain