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Event: InfoComm 2015

March 20, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Orlando, USA - from 17/06/2015 to 19/06/2015: we'll be exhibiting at InfoComm 2015, the largest event for professional AV in the world. Collabora booth 5469

Event: GENIVI AMM Stuttgart 2015

March 18, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Stuttgart, Germany - From 22/04/2015 to 22/04/2015: We will be exhibiting at the GENIVI Demonstration Showcase during the All Member Meeting.

Weston repaint scheduling

February 11, 2015 by Pekka Paalanen | Blog

Latest Weston features

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.

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

Debian Jessie on Raspberry Pi 2

February 03, 2015 by Sjoerd Simons | Blog

Debian Jessie running on Raspberry Pi 2

WebKit on the new Raspberry Pi 2

February 02, 2015 by Marco Barisione | Blog

Raspberry PI 2 release announcement!

Event: ISE 2015

January 15, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Amsterdam, The Netherlands February 10-12, 2015: the world’s largest tradeshow dedicated to professional AV and electronic systems integration. Collabora booth #11-E61

Event: CES 2015

December 17, 2014 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Las Vegas, USA - January 6th - 9th, 2015: Collabora will be participating with key partners at CES 2015, the world’s gathering place for all who thrive on the business of consumer technologies.

Event: Developer Experience Hackfest 2015

December 16, 2014 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Cambridge, UK January 25-29, 2015: Hosted at Collabora's UK headquarters, the Event Developer Hackfest 2015 aims to continue the tradition of pushing forward roadmaps for the toolkit and developer experience.

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

Event: Web Engines Hackfest 2014

November 24, 2014 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

A Coruña, Spain - December 7-10, 2014: Collabora are pleased to be sponsoring and attending the upcoming Web Engines Hackfest, which will bring together members from all parts of the Web Platform community.

Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver

November 26, 2021 by Antonio Caggiano | Blog

A step-by-step guide on how to enable 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU through the new Venus experimental Vulkan driver for VirtIO-GPU with a local development environment.

Run your own CI pipeline with GStreamer's new monorepo

October 26, 2021 by Xavier Claessens | Blog

Maintaining a non-trivial set of GStreamer patches can be tricky. Thanks to the recent move to a single, unified git repo, you can now easily run a GStreamer continuous integration pipeline on your own GitLab instance. Here's how.

Improving test coverage for cameras in KernelCI

October 08, 2021 by Nícolas F. R. A. Prado | Blog

Earlier this year, I joined Collabora as an intern to work on improving testing in libcamera and automating it through KernelCI. Having recently completed the internship, here's a look back at this experience and what was accomplished.

A tale of two toolchains and glibc

September 30, 2021 by Adrian Ratiu | Blog

With the LLVM toolchain seeing increasing development and adoption alongside the older, more established GNU toolchain, projects needing to support both, in particular the GNU C library (glibc), are facing challenges and questions.

An xrdesktop summer of code

September 10, 2021 by Lubosz Sarnecki | Blog

This summer, Christoph Haag and I had the pleasure of taking part in Google Summer of Code as mentors for xrdesktop, the Open Source project bringing the Linux desktop to VR on Valve's SteamVR & Monado. Here's what was accomplished.

Adding VP9 and MPEG2 stateless support in v4l2codecs for GStreamer

June 23, 2021 by Daniel Almeida | Blog

Earlier this year, from January to April 2021, I worked on adding support for stateless decoders for GStreamer as part of a multimedia internship at Collabora. Here's a recap of this completed work.

Bag of Freebies for XR Hand Tracking: Machine Learning & OpenXR

June 17, 2021 by Marcus Edel | Blog

In our previous post, we presented a project backed by INVEST-AI which introduces a multi-stage neural network-based solution. Now let's dive into the machine learning details of our innovative, open source hand-tracking pipeline.

Testing cameras with lc-compliance on KernelCI

June 15, 2021 by Nícolas F. R. A. Prado | Blog

Initiated as a joint effort by the Google Chrome OS team and Collabora, the recent KernelCI hackfest brought the addition of new tests including the ability to detect regressions on the Linux kernel that can directly affect cameras.

Zink: Summer 2021 update

June 14, 2021 by Erik Faye-Lund | Blog

There's a lot that has happened in the world of Zink since my last update, so let's see if I can bring you up to date on the most important stuff, including upstream development, support for OpenGL 4.6 & GLES 3.1, and more.

Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost

June 11, 2021 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | Blog

Panfrost, the open source driver for Arm Mali, now supports OpenGL ES 3.1 on both Midgard (Mali T760 and newer) and Bifrost (Mali G31, G52, G72) GPUs, adding a number of features, notably including compute shaders.

Optimizing 3D performance with virglrenderer

May 17, 2021 by Gert Wollny | Blog

Collabora has been investing into Perfetto to enable driver authors & users to get deep insights into driver internals and GPU performance. Here's how we applied this work to study workloads on the virtualized VirGL implementation.

Mainline Linux gains accelerated video decoding for Microchip's SAMA5D4

May 11, 2021 by Emil Velikov | Blog

The Hantro Video4Linux2 (V4L2) kernel module has gained support for another SoC! The Microchip SAMA5D4 features a single decode unit supporting MPEG2, VP8 and H.264 streams, alongside the built-in post-processing unit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

MediaTek improvements in Linux 6.13

January 24, 2025 by Sebastian Fricke | News & Events

Collabora's deep involvement with the MediaTek community continued to shine this week with the release of Linux 6.13, which saw multiple improvements land for MediaTek SoCs.