Game Jolt (a relatively new Open Source/Freeware game project hosting site) has recently announced their plans for implementing ad revenue sharing for Open Source and Freeware game developers. Most profit sharing schemes have only been available to the Casual/Flash gaming community, until now.

It is amazing what people can do with free software. Yo Frankie is a game that has really decent graphics. It is open source and was created by the Blender institute. Check it out!

Chromium developers have just released three sample extensions for Google Chrome. The extensions are for testing purposes only. To run them, you will need to use a recent trunk build or the Chrome dev channel release, and then add --enable-extensions to your Chrome command line. Here are the 3 Google Chrome sample extensions (with screenshots)

In a recent blog, Sun developer Malte Timmermann took a position on the security concerns of the Ecole Superieure d'Informatique, Electronique, Automatique (ESIEA) in Paris-Laval, France. The subject was the vulnerability of OpenOffice, involving document macros, for example.

Your common, non-technical Windows user has most likely not heard anything more than a cursory mention about Linux. They have questions about Linux that are not always answered easily.

Linux Unified Kernel claims to allow you to run Windows application native under Linux (I haven't tested it yet though). The installation is quite simple from what I saw, simply download the version called "Linux Unified Kernel 0.2.3 with wine and linux kernel" and then all you have to do is run this (make it executable and double click it):

To me this is a very simple question to answer. Linux does not need a unified package manager when the source to the application you are using is available for you to compile on your own. Make your own package.