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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

Steam Frame bringt Bewegung in die Arm64-Welt von Arch Linux. Mit Holo Core entsteht ein erster aarch64-Port von Arch Linux. Collabora unterstützt Valve dabei, die Tooling- und CI-Infrastruktur für reproduzierbare Builds auf der neuen Plattform aufzubauen. www.linux-magazin.de/news/collabo...

Collabora portiert Arch Linux für die Arm64-Plattform von Steam

Collabora arbeitet gemeinsam mit Valve an „Holo Core“, einer auf die Arm64-Architektur zugeschnittenen Portierung von Arch Linux. Sie soll als Grundlage für das Betriebssystem des kommenden Steam…

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A new kernel release, another round of upstream work. 🐧 For Linux 7.2, Collabora engineers contributed 102 patches across graphics, media, virtualization, networking, power management, SoC enablement, Rust, and more. Explore the highlights: www.collabora.com/news-and-blo... #LinuxKernel

Kernel 7.2: RK3588 media, smarter GPU memory, and Rust foundations

Linux kernel 7.2 brings core, Rust, and hardware-support updates, with Collabora contributions across graphics, media, virtualization, networking, and SoC enablement.

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Tyr’s Rust GPU kernel driver work is moving another major piece into place: memory management. From VM binding and GPUVM to GEM-backed buffers & firmware boot, the latest progress brings key pieces upstream and sets the stage for tackling synchronization next: col.la/tyrpgumemory #Tyr #Rustlang

Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory

Tyr’s Rust GPU driver gains core memory-management support, including GPUVM, GEM buffers, and firmware boot, as upstream work continues toward synchronization.

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RADV sur Windows avance. Avec le soutien de Valve, Collabora travaille à porter RADV, le pilote Vulkan open source de Mesa pour les GPU AMD, au-delà de Linux. Le projet reste expérimental, mais Counter-Strike 2 fonctionne déjà avec RADV sous Windows. 🎮 www.frandroid.com/marques/valv... #Linux

Et si les meilleurs pilotes AMD pour Windows venaient de... Linux ? Le pari fou de Valve se montre déjà sur CS2

Valve finance désormais les efforts de Collabora dans le développement de son pilote open source RADV Vulkan dédié à Windows. Un portage qui porte d'ores

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Arch Linux on Arm64, backed by real hardware work. ⚙️ Collabora has been helping Valve build Holo Core, the Arm64 foundation for SteamOS 3 on Steam Frame. The first preview is now available with binaries, sources, and a development container for early testing: www.theregister.com/os-platforms...

Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support

Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset

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From HDMI 2.0 to boot stack enablement, the MediaTek Genio IoT family continues to gain stronger upstream foundations. 🚀 Our work with MediaTek spans existing Genio boards, Linux progress for Genio 520 and 720, and Genio Pro 5100 support in U-Boot and Trusted Firmware-A: col.la/mediatekhdmi2

MediaTek Genio upstream update: from HDMI 2.0 to booting on U-Boot and TF-A

MediaTek Genio IoT platforms gain expanded upstream support, including HDMI 2.0, Linux enablement, and boot stack work across U-Boot and Trusted Firmware-A.

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RADV on Windows is getting attention for good reason. With Valve supporting our work to bring Mesa’s open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs beyond Linux, the effort points to easier debugging, faster fixes, and more collaboration across platforms. www.tomshardware.com/software/lin... #RADV #Mesa

Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows — cross-platform effort already runs 'Counter-Strike 2'

Long-term effort can eventually pay off big dividends.

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Linux kernel 7.2 brings broad updates across the core kernel, Rust, and hardware support. Collabora engineers contributed 102 patches this cycle, spanning graphics, media, virtualization, networking, power management, SoC enablement, and more. Explore our team’s contributions: col.la/lx72

Kernel 7.2: RK3588 media, smarter GPU memory, and Rust foundations

Linux kernel 7.2 brings core, Rust, and hardware-support updates, with Collabora contributions across graphics, media, virtualization, networking, and SoC enablement.

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MediaTek Genio IoT support keeps moving upstream. Together with MediaTek, we’re expanding Genio enablement, from HDMI 2.0 on existing boards to Linux progress for Genio 520 and 720, and Genio Pro 5100 work in U-Boot and Trusted Firmware-A. col.la/mediatekhdmi2 @mediatekinc.bsky.social

MediaTek Genio upstream update: from HDMI 2.0 to booting on U-Boot and TF-A

MediaTek Genio IoT platforms gain expanded upstream support, including HDMI 2.0, Linux enablement, and boot stack work across U-Boot and Trusted Firmware-A.

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The first public preview of Holo Core for aarch64 is here! Developed with Valve for Steam Frame, this work brings Arch Linux to an architecture it does not officially support, backed by new tooling and CI infrastructure for reproducible rolling-release builds. Explore the binaries: col.la/holocore

Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core

Explore the Holo Core aarch64 preview, with early binaries, sources, and containers for an Arch Linux-based Arm port backed by reproducible CI tooling.

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Immersive technology can help make hidden environmental challenges easier to understand. For SOMAR, our 1% for the Planet partner, we built a standalone OpenXR experience that shows how underwater noise pollution affects marine fauna. 🐋 Read more: col.la/earthday26 #OpenXR #OpenSource

Making the invisible audible: Building an OpenXR experience for ocean protection

Collabora created a standalone XR experience for our 1% for the Planet partner, SOMAR, to showcase the effects of underwater noise pollution on marine life.

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Embedded video codecs and graphics are converging. At Linux Plumbers Conference 2026, Nicolas Dufresne will present When Embedded Codecs Meet Graphics in the LPC Refereed Track, covering Vulkan Video, Mesa, DRM memory management, and Linux codec support. Catch it live: lpc.events/event/20/con...

Linux Plumbers Conference 2026

The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for the open source community. The LPC brings together the top developers working on the plumbing of Linux - kernel subsys...

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Kraid has hit an exciting milestone for the Panfrost driver stack: the new compiler now passes all 800,000 Vulkan CTS compute shader tests! 🎉 There is still work ahead on shader stages, code quality, and performance optimization, but this is a major step forward: col.la/kraidcompiler #Kraid

Kraid is a now a real compiler

Kraid now passes all 800,000 Vulkan CTS compute shader tests, marking a major milestone for the new Panfrost compiler as work continues on shader support and optimization.

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Speech recognition, local LLMs, and tool calling can now be composed through simple APIs. In this demo, we show a fully open source voice-powered AI pipeline controlling a computer locally. Watch the demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV06... #llm #voicecontrol #opensource #machinelearning

Controlling your computer with voice locally

Open-source voice-powered Large Language Model pipeline to control any computer, on a complete open-source stack, running locally. Read more:…

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What would it take to bring Mesa’s open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to Windows? RADV’s experimental Windows port is moving closer to real workloads, while highlighting a key challenge ahead: a stable interface to AMD’s proprietary kernel driver: col.la/portradv @vulkan.org #RADV #Mesa

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to WIN32

RADV’s experimental Windows port explores bringing Mesa’s open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to real workloads while outlining the path toward stable support.

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Modern display pipelines need accurate color, better debugging, and efficient use of hardware. Weston 16 helps move that work forward with expanded HDR and color management support, improved Perfetto tracing, DRM backend optimizations, and new protocol and renderer capabilities: col.la/weston16

Weston 16: HDR-ready, improved debugging, and DRM backend features

Weston 16 brings expanded HDR and color management support, improved debugging, DRM backend optimizations, and new protocol and renderer capabilities.

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OpenXR is shaping cross-platform XR, but true portability takes more than targeting a single API. This talk explores runtime architecture, spatial entities, extension support, and the work needed to make XR experiences run across devices and platforms: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhZR... #XR #OpenXR

OpenXR Deep Dive: From Runtime Architecture to Spatial Computing by Frédéric Plourde

OpenXR is the foundation for cross-platform XR, but real interoperability requires more than targeting a single API. As XR platforms diversify, developers are seeing that conformance, runtime…

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We've been working with @valvesoftware.com on Holo Core, a pure aarch64 port of Arch Linux, built to run on Steam Frame. Arch has no official aarch64 support and no CI infra of its own, so we built both. First public preview (binaries, sources, containers) is out now! col.la/holocore #ArchLinux

Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core

Explore the Holo Core aarch64 preview, with early binaries, sources, and containers for an Arch Linux-based Arm port backed by reproducible CI tooling.

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Weston 16 expands HDR and color management support, improves Perfetto debugging and DRM backend performance, and adds new protocol and renderer capabilities for more efficient and flexible Wayland compositor development. col.la/weston16 #Weston #Wayland #LinuxGraphics #OpenSource

Weston 16: HDR-ready, improved debugging, and DRM backend features

Weston 16 brings expanded HDR and color management support, improved debugging, DRM backend optimizations, and new protocol and renderer capabilities.

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🔧 Mainline Linux is getting NPU support for the Rockchip RK3576, thanks to serious reverse-engineering work by Ga Hing Woo (the chip's TRM doesn't even document the compute registers involved)! 👇 (1/3)

Git 2.55 landed with parallel config-based hooks, and it's a feature our own Adrian Ratiu helped design and upstream 🎉 GitHub's release roundup covers the highlights: github.blog/open-source/.... For the deeper dive on how it works (and what's next), see our post: www.collabora.com/news-and-blo...

Highlights from Git 2.55

The open source Git project just released Git 2.55. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

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