The old modutils package doesn't work with 2.6 - there's a seperate version for 2.6, I'm guessing it's probably a dependancy of the 2.6.0 mdk kernel though. urpmi can grab the new modutils, but I don't remember the exact package name.
Your problem might have just been the install kernel that was used in the prior versions. Beta 2 will be switching to a different install kernel, to fix some problems and unsupported hardware in the prior ones.
Com and it's decendants are supposed to take care of this. In reality they work relativly well, but also lead to larger and larger libraries. The simple reason is because Com has to remain backwards compatable, by way of leaving in the old functions and methods.
As far as games for the kiddie crowd which help with creativity, there's always Toontalk.
It's sort of an abstract programming language that represents simple concepts as robots, houses, boxes, and other manipulatable items onscreen. Kids (or bored adults) can make/trade games created with it and such. Useless for anything very complex at all, but a cute idea, at least.
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The old modutils package doesn't work with 2.6 - there's a seperate version for 2.6, I'm guessing it's probably a dependancy of the 2.6.0 mdk kernel though. urpmi can grab the new modutils, but I don't remember the exact package name.
Your problem might have just been the install kernel that was used in the prior versions. Beta 2 will be switching to a different install kernel, to fix some problems and unsupported hardware in the prior ones.
Com and it's decendants are supposed to take care of this. In reality they work relativly well, but also lead to larger and larger libraries. The simple reason is because Com has to remain backwards compatable, by way of leaving in the old functions and methods.
As far as games for the kiddie crowd which help with creativity, there's always Toontalk.
It's sort of an abstract programming language that represents simple concepts as robots, houses, boxes, and other manipulatable items onscreen. Kids (or bored adults) can make/trade games created with it and such. Useless for anything very complex at all, but a cute idea, at least.