Pipes and sockets are not the same thing. Pipes are fast and reliable, because they are implemented in memory on a single host where both communicating processes run. Sockets are slower and less reliable, but are much more flexible since they allow communication between processes on different hosts. See perlipc for a crash course on using them in perl.
On Linux, pick a distro (inviting no distro wars here!) that some friend uses and copy the cd's, or if you have a fast connection download the iso images from a mirror. http://kernel.org is the original source.
After Compline,
Zaxo
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There are far to many distributions of Linux to go into all of them here. http://distrowatch.com has
a pretty good comparison of almost all of them and a little bit of information about each. Don't be
overwhelmed by the sheer numbers, if you're new to Linux you probably want one of the
main ones anyway. I personally use
Mandrake and would recommend you consider it. It's pretty much a
derivative of Red Hat with a few added things and a nicer installation process.
If you have a friend that already runs Linux then I think Zaxo's advice of borrowing their cd is your
best bet. I can't begin to express how much tech-support-for-food from friends has helped me over the
years.
Disclaimer: This just my opinion. There are a lot of nice Linux distributions out there and
each is good in it's own way. Basically, I'm not trying to start a distro war. Please don't flame me.
sm3g
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