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Open Source Software Consulting. Whether it's the #Linux kernel, graphics, multimedia, machine learning, or XR, we can help. Learn more at collabora.com.

#OpenSource #GStreamer #PipeWire #NVK #Panfrost #Wayland #OpenXR #Monado
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Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer

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#Weston #Vulkan
Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer
After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Warm holiday wishes from everyone at Collabora! May your season be safe, happy, and filled with good health, and your New Year full of opportunity!

#happyholidays2025 #heresto2026 #openfirst #opensource #linux
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Mesa NVK Driver Merges Compression Support For Better Performance

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#NVK #OpenGL #OpenSource
Mesa NVK Driver Merges Compression Support For Better Performance
Merged today to the Mesa 26.0-devel code for the open-source NVIDIA 'NVK' Vulkan driver is compression support for helping to deliver better performance.
www.phoronix.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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For over a year, in close partnership with #MediaTek, we’ve been enhancing #Chromium on Genio and Kompanio platforms to fully unlock the hardware users depend on, delivering out-of-the-box hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding for compute-heavy apps.

Read more: col.la/ChromiumMediaTek
Driving a seamless Chromium experience on MediaTek SoCs
Enhancing Chromium to fully leverage hardware video acceleration on MediaTek Genio and Kompanio platforms for better performance and power efficiency on Linux.
col.la
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Rust in Linux is here to stay — and we’re showcasing it at #LinuxPlumbers in Tokyo! Take a break between sessions and race karts on #Tyr, the new Rust DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs! 🎉

#rustlang #linux #opensource
Tyr demo at Linux Plumbers 2025
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Some #rustlang news coming out of the #Linux Maintainers Summit in Tokyo, courtesy of LWN.net:

"Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay." 🎉

lwn.net/Articles/104...
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
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December 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Monado 25.1.0 is now available! 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! 🚀

Details here: col.la/monado251

#OpenSource #XR
Monado 25.1.0: Enabling tomorrow’s OpenXR experiences
The latest update to the cross-platform Open-Source OpenXR runtime delivers major improvements across hand tracking, device support, and the core runtime infrastructure.
col.la
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Tyr – A Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali GPUs

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Tyr - A Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali GPUs - CNX Software
One interesting addition to the just-released Linux 6.18 kernel is the Tyr Rust GPU driver for CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs, which is a port of the mature
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December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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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: col.la/plumbers25

#LinuxPlumbers #Rustlang #OpenSource
Pushing the kernel forward at Linux Plumbers 2025
Catch us in Tokyo for the Linux Plumbers Conference for our talks on the Linux kernel!
col.la
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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In the latest Linux kernel release, Collabora’s engineering team delivers multiple contributions including #Tyr, a Rust driver for CSF-based #Arm Mali GPUs, as well as ongoing hardware enablement and improved support for #MediaTek SoCs! Details here: col.la/lk618

#Rustlang #Linux #OpenSource
Kernel 6.18: Tyr advances Rust in Linux
Collabora’s engineering team delivers multiple contributions including Tyr, a Rust driver for CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs, as well as ongoing hardware enablement and improved support for MediaTek SoCs.
col.la
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Day 2 of ESE Kongress is underway and we're ready to share our experience on Open Source LLMs.

Grab a seat for Marcus Edel's talk as he shares tips for optimizing large AI models for use on embedded hardware at 15:45 UTC: col.la/esekongress25

#ESEKongress
Lecture room at ESE Kongress
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The first day of ESE Kongress has begun! We're excited to dive into and contribute to the latest developments in embedded software.

Wir sehen uns dort! col.la/esekongress25

#ESEKongress
Collabora at ESE Kongress 2025 in Sindelfingen, Germany
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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As an active member of the freedesktop community, Collabora was busy at XDC 2025. Our graphics team delivered five talks, helped out in two more sessions, and ran a workshop for newcomers.

Watch our sessions to see the insights firsthand: col.la/xdc2025videos

#XDC2025 #OpenSource
Now streaming: Collabora’s XDC 2025 presentations
A look back at the insights and highlights Collabora's graphics team shared at XDC 2025
col.la
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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ICYMI: LE Audio replaces classic Bluetooth® audio profiles with a modern, low-energy framework designed for lower latency, better battery life, and more advanced use cases.

Dive into how it works on #Linux through BlueZ + #PipeWire, and what’s coming next for developers and devices: col.la/leaudio
Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio & Auracast on Linux systems
LE Audio replaces classic Bluetooth® audio profiles with a modular, low-energy architecture.
col.la
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Vulkan's VK_EXT_present_timing Merged After Five Years In The Making

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#Vulkan
Vulkan's VK_EXT_present_timing Merged After Five Years In The Making
Originally opened in September 2020 by NVIDIA Linux engineer James Jones, tonight the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was finally merged! Five years in the making and incorporating…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance

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#NVK #NVIDIA #Vulkan #OpenSource
Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance
This Black Friday is an in-depth look at the current performance of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver (the Nova driver not yet being ready for end-users) paired…
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November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We're headed to Germany next week to present at the annual ESE Kongress. Catch Marcus Edel's talk on Wednesday as he shares tips on optimizing large AI models for use on embedded hardware.

See you there! col.la/esekongress25

#ESEKongress
Training open source LLMs at ESE Kongress 2025
Join us next week at ESE Kongress in Germany for our talk on large open source models!
col.la
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Same-day upstream #Linux support? That’s what we love to see. Well done, Qualcomm! #OpenFirst

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Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform
Initial kernel and subsystem support for new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 posted for review. Learn what’s in the patches and how you can start working with them.
www.qualcomm.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ICYMI: Our Rust-powered #Tyr driver for Arm Mali GPUs has evolved quickly. What started with basic GPU job execution is now running full desktops and 3D games like SuperTuxKart. 🏎️

See Tyr's progress (and video) here: col.la/tyrprogress

#Rustlang #GPU #OpenSource
Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver
The Tyr prototype has progressed from basic GPU job execution to running GNOME, Weston, and full-screen 3D games like SuperTuxKart
col.la
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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LE Audio is redefining Bluetooth® audio with a modern, low-power, low-latency architecture that finally moves beyond the limitations of classic profiles.

Explore the features, the current support in BlueZ + @pipewire.org and what’s ahead: col.la/leaudio

#Bluetooth #LEAudio #Auracast #Linux
Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio & Auracast on Linux systems
LE Audio replaces classic Bluetooth® audio profiles with a modular, low-energy architecture.
col.la
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Updated Steam Runtime Switches To Debian 13 Libraries, SDL2 Using Compatibility Layer

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#Debian
Updated Steam Runtime Switches To Debian 13 Libraries, SDL2 Using Compatibility Layer
An updated version of the Steam Linux Runtime 4 branch was rolled out that has now shifted from Debian 11 to Debian 13 libraries for some significant upgrades
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November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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A few months ago, we introduced #Tyr, our Rust-based driver for Arm Mali GPUs. Today, we’re excited to share that the Tyr prototype has advanced from basic GPU job execution to running GNOME, Weston, and even full-screen 3D games like SuperTuxKart! 🔥

Details (and video) here: col.la/tyrprogress
Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver
The Tyr prototype has progressed from basic GPU job execution to running GNOME, Weston, and full-screen 3D games like SuperTuxKart
col.la
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance

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#NVK #Zink #OpenGL #OpenSource
NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance
In addition to the RADV driver status update shared recently in Vienna at XDC2025, there was also a presentation on the current status of the NVK driver as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Collabora’s long-term leadership in KernelCI has delivered a completely revamped architecture, new tooling, stronger infrastructure, and deeper integrations—modernizing the entire ecosystem and enabling reliable, scalable upstream #kernel testing.

See #KernelCI's progress: col.la/strongerkernelci
Strengthening KernelCI: New architecture, storage, and inegrations
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Say goodbye to Linux audio headaches: how #PipeWire simplifies everything

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#OpenSource #Linux #Audio
Say goodbye to Linux audio headaches: how PipeWire simplifies everything
Tired of juggling multiple audio systems on Linux? This development unifies them all, offering a seamless experience like never before.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM