note afoken <blockquote> <blockquote>... is there some preferred flavour of linux that any one of you could suggest?</blockquote> <p>Slackware</p></blockquote> <p>I second that. Slackware is one of the few Linux distributions that still use the shell (bash or ash) for <b>all</b> scripting. You can completely remove Perl and Slackware will still run (<small>but remember that the Linux 3.x kernel needs perl 5 to compile - duh!</small>), and you can replace the system Perl with any Perl you like.</p> <p>Alexander</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-747201"> --<br> Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-) </div></div> 1004406 1004431