well, the original question asked was regarding a PerlMonks contribution to linux. I do everything but play q3 on openBSD machines, and i wasn't intending to start a holy war over this. But I can't think of anything offhand that could both benefit from being rewritten in perl and is not platform specific. I mean, just because ping/telnet/lsof can be rewritten in perl doesn't necessarily mean they should be...

how about a gui kernel configuration tool for *BSD?

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