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JPEG-XR support on blink

March 21, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh  |   Blog

JPEG-XR support on browsing technologies

JPEG-XR support on blink

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: InfoComm 2015

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.

Event: GENIVI AMM Stuttgart 2015

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

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: ISE 2015

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: CES 2015

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.

Event: Developer Experience Hackfest 2015

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

Mesa CI and the power of pre-merge testing

October 08, 2024 by Deborah Brouwer  |   Blog

Having multiple developers work on pre-merge testing distributes the process and ensures that every contribution is rigorously tested before merging.

Mesa CI and the power of pre-merge testing

A shifty tale about unit testing with Maxwell, NVK's backend compiler

August 15, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand  |   Blog

After rigorous debugging, a new unit testing framework was added to the backend compiler for NVK. This is a walkthrough of the steps taken to achieve this.

A shifty tale about unit testing with Maxwell, NVK's backend compiler

A journey towards reliable testing in the Linux Kernel

August 01, 2024 by Laura Nao  |   Blog

We're reflecting on the steps taken as we continually seek to improve Linux kernel integration. This will include more detail about the tests used to enhance the quality of testing processes and coverage.

A journey towards reliable testing in the Linux Kernel

Building a Board Farm for Embedded World

June 27, 2024 by Christopher Obbard  |   Blog

With each board running a mainline-first Linux software stack and tested in a CI loop with the LAVA test framework, the Farm showcased Collabora's recent hardware enablement and Continuous integration (CI) efforts.

Building a Board Farm for Embedded World

Smart audio filters with WirePlumber 0.5

June 26, 2024 by Julian Bouzas  |   Blog

WirePlumber 0.5 arrived recently with many new and essential features including the Smart Filter Policy, enabling audio filters to automatically insert themselves in between client streams and devices.

Smart audio filters with WirePlumber 0.5

The latest on cmtp-responder, a permissively-licensed MTP responder implementation

June 12, 2024 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz  |   Blog

Part 3 of the cmtp-responder series with a focus on USB gadgets explores several new elements including a unified build environment with Docker and an example strategy for building and deploying to a target.

The latest on cmtp-responder, a permissively-licensed MTP responder implementation

A roadmap for VirtIO Video on ChromeOS: part 3

June 06, 2024 by Daniel Almeida  |   Blog

The final installment of a series explaining how Collabora is helping shape the video virtualization story for Chromebooks with a focus on the future plans for cros-libva and cros-codecs.

A roadmap for VirtIO Video on ChromeOS: part 3

Hacking on the PipeWire GStreamer elements

June 05, 2024 by George Kiagiadakis  |   Blog

Last week I attended the GStreamer spring hackfest in Thessaloniki to work on the PipeWire GStreamer elements and connect with the community.

Hacking on the PipeWire GStreamer elements

Transforming speech technology with WhisperLive

May 28, 2024 by Kara Bembridge  |   Blog

The world of AI has made leaps and bounds from what It once was, but there are still some adjustments required for the optimal outcome. With the help of WhisperLive, VoxAI was able to improve its response time and oratory abilities.

Transforming speech technology with WhisperLive

Re-converging control flow on NVIDIA GPUs - What went wrong, and how we fixed it

April 25, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand  |   Blog

While I managed to land support for two extensions, implementing control flow re-convergence in NVK did not go as planned. This is the story of what went wrong and how we fixed it.

Re-converging control flow on NVIDIA GPUs - What went wrong, and how we fixed it

Automatic regression handling and reporting for the Linux Kernel

March 14, 2024 by Ricardo Cañuelo Navarro  |   Blog

In continuation with our series about Kernel Integration we'll go into more detail about how regression detection, processing, and tracking can be improved to provide a better service to developers and maintainers.

Automatic regression handling and reporting for the Linux Kernel

Almost a fully open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588!

February 21, 2024 by Eugen Hristev  |   Blog

Now included in our Debian images & available via our GitLab, you can build a complete, working BL31 (Boot Loader stage 3.1), and replace the closed binary blob with an open-source binary that anyone can compile.

Almost a fully open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588!

Monado: Multi-application support with XR_EXTX_overlay

June 30, 2020 by Lubosz Sarnecki  |   News & Events

The recent improvements in Monado like out of process compositing and multi-layer rendering released with v0.2 prepared the requirements to implement OpenXR's XR_EXTX_overlay extension.

Monado: Multi-application support with XR_EXTX_overlay

Embedded Linux & Open Source take the virtual stage

June 18, 2020 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Collabora will be presenting on five separate occasions during the virtual editions of Embedded Linux Conference North America and Open Source Summit North America, taking place later this month.

Embedded Linux & Open Source take the virtual stage

Kernel 5.7: Forging ahead, despite COVID-19

June 04, 2020 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz  |   News & Events

This latest release is the first to contain development work accomplished amid the lockdown measures. Despite these significant changes, Collaborans have also been steadfast in their contributions, with multiple projects progressing.

Kernel 5.7: Forging ahead, despite COVID-19

Google Summer of Code 2020

June 01, 2020 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Coding hss begun for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects, announced earlier last month. The 2020 edition selected 1,199 students from 66 countries, to work with 199 mentoring organizations over the course of the summer.

Google Summer of Code 2020

Monado OpenXR runtime development gaining momentum: version 0.2, multi-layer support & more!

May 29, 2020 by Jakob Bornecrantz  |   News & Events

With the excellent (online) edition of Augmented World Expo 2020 in full swing this week, what better time to announce version 0.2 of the Monado OpenXR runtime for Linux. It's been a very busy three months since the last Monado developer update!

Monado OpenXR runtime development gaining momentum: version 0.2, multi-layer support & more!

Laval Virtual: OpenXR master class in VR!

May 18, 2020 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

A few weeks ago, Ryan Pavlik presented "Unifying Reality: Building Experiences with OpenXR", a master class on OpenXR, the open standard API for building VR and AR experiences that work across devices, now and into the future.

Laval Virtual: OpenXR master class in VR!

xrdesktop 0.14 with OpenXR support is here!

May 08, 2020 by Lubosz Sarnecki  |   News & Events

Sponsored by Valve, this latest release of the Open Source project which enables interaction with traditional desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, in VR, brings the largest amount of changes yet, with many new features and architectural improvements.

xrdesktop 0.14 with OpenXR support is here!

Service process and out of process compositing in Monado

April 30, 2020 by Lubosz Sarnecki  |   News & Events

A new monado-service binary and out of process compositor has landed in Monado, the fully Open Source OpenXR runtime for Linux! Here's a demo of the compositor's new abilities running with the new Blender OpenXR VR Session.

Service process and out of process compositing in Monado

Say hello to the newest Collaborans!

April 21, 2020 by Erica Ryoo  |   News & Events

In these times of disruption and uncertainty, how about some positive news for a change? Let's take a moment to celebrate the newest members of our engineering and administration teams: Mylène, Christopher, Melissa, Ricardo and Leandro!

Say hello to the newest Collaborans!

Projects and progress in Linux kernel 5.6

March 31, 2020 by Helen Koike  |   News & Events

Despite the challenges presented by COVID-19, Linux kernel development continues. Here's a look at the various projects Collaborans have been involved in, and the progress made in kernel 5.6, which was released over the weekend.

Projects and progress in Linux kernel 5.6

Linaro Tech Days: Wayland, Weston & Open Source GPU drivers

March 30, 2020 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

This week, Daniel Stone and Tomeu Vizoso will be taking part in Linaro Tech Days, a series of technical sessions presented live online via Zoom webinar and streamed on YouTube. These sessions are free to attend and open to the public!

Linaro Tech Days: Wayland, Weston & Open Source GPU drivers

Introducing OpenCL and OpenGL on DirectX

March 24, 2020 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   News & Events

Today, Collabora is excited to announce a partnership with Microsoft to build OpenCL and OpenGL mapping layers on DirectX, in order to bring OpenCL 1.2 and OpenGL 3.3 support to all Windows and DirectX 12 enabled devices.

Introducing OpenCL and OpenGL on DirectX

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