Perl/Linux [LWN.net]

Lately it seems that people have been very seriously concerned about a great many things. Is OpenSUSE really free as in freedom? (Yes it is.) Is Fedora really a community project? (Yes and getting better at it all the time). Well, it's time to lighten up and look at something completely tongue in cheek. It's not new, or finished or even maintained at this point, but it is creative.

Perl fans have probably known about it for a while. Yes, it's Perl/Linux, a Linux distribution where all the programs are written in perl.

Actually, if you look at Jay Kominek's list of Perl/Linux software you'll see that some functionality is currently missing. Still, the possibility is there.

Seriously, though we are looking for guest authors to supply some occasional content for this page. Why not get published and write about your favorite distribution for LWN.net? Please have a look at our author guide if you are interested.

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Perl/Linux

Posted Nov 30, 2006 8:01 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

I wouldn't call it entirely tongue-in-cheek. The idea is actually not that different from a Busybox-based mini distribution. Given the number of very high-level functions in Perl, it could in fact be considered a run-time configurable Busybox.

Perl/Linux

Posted Nov 30, 2006 16:12 UTC (Thu) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link]

Reminds me of Unununium which aims to be an OS (almost) completely written in Python.

Heretix (former Rubyx)

Posted Nov 30, 2006 18:57 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link]

There's also Heretix written in Ruby.

Perl/Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2006 20:47 UTC (Thu) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

Remember also ETLinux with TCL as systems-programming language -
http://wiki.tcl.tk/3730
Lot of utilities were written in TCL,
which seriously lowered resource requirements/consumption.