I am curious as to which Operating System everyone is using, and what they use the most for their Perl Programming. I myself use Linux kernel v.2.2.16 and windows 98 SE dual boot. While I have the activestate Perl, I prefer to code PERL in Linux. I'm just curious as to what others use and why.Have you run across any OS specific problems with PERL?

Thanks
Macphisto


Everyone has their demons....

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RE: What OS are you using.
by le (Friar) on Aug 23, 2000 at 20:26 UTC
    FreeBSD at home and at work, but there I also use Win98 (for those damn .doc and .xls files I have convert to HTML). Our server OS'es include Linux and AIX.
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RE: What OS are you using.
by knight (Friar) on Aug 23, 2000 at 19:47 UTC
    Linux (Red Hat 6.2) and Windows NT. I also use FreeBSD for sanity checks, but portability between Linux and NT covers 99+% of my needs; I can't remember the last time I had to code around a difference between Linux and *BSD.
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RE: What OS are you using.
by Jonathan (Curate) on Aug 23, 2000 at 20:01 UTC
    I use Solaris, with a NT box acting as a buggy, slow very dumb terminal.
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RH 6.2 Linux and modules
by moo (Acolyte) on Aug 23, 2000 at 21:00 UTC 
    I have had some problems installing modules on Redhat 
Linux 6.2.  DBI just doesn't want to go and I'm not really
interested in spending too much time messing with it...
Perl is the priority, not system administration.  

So, for now, SuSE 6.4 is the way to go.  Any module 
installation using perl -MCPAN -e "xxxxx" went 
flawlessly on that distro.  It also comes with more
modules installed by default, thereby reducing the time
required to the box up to speed.  As a supremely lazy 
entity, this is a Good Thing.

--moo
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Re: What OS are you using.
by clash (Novice) on Dec 01, 2000 at 23:21 UTC
    Im using Win 98 because i dont know any better :(. but i hate it because its really unstable and never can keep uptime long. I get logged offline alot because i get crashes in programs.

    In Activestate's Activeperl, i noticed that it also crashes alot when i try to install a module from CPAN onto it.
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RE: What OS are you using.
by KM (Priest) on Aug 23, 2000 at 19:40 UTC
    My OS of choice is FreeBSD. I use various Win32 platforms, when I need to. Mostly, if I use a Win32 OS it is basically a terminal into a unix box. I also use Linux when needed, but prefer *BSD.

    Cheers,
    KM

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RE: What OS are you using.
by Shendal (Hermit) on Aug 23, 2000 at 19:45 UTC
    This should really be a poll. vroom?

    However, I run Solaris & NT. Many scripts run in both environments. I typically start a new script on UNIX, and port it to NT (of course, after doing this many times, there's typically little to change).
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      I typically do the same here. I'll write it on my Linux machine and then port it NT4.0 for users who may find it usefull. I use NT at work since we run an NT network.

      Everyone has their demons....
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RE: What OS are you using.
by maverick (Curate) on Aug 23, 2000 at 19:50 UTC
    Redhat Linux 6.1 kernel 2.2.16 on a dual Celeron 450. All the other servers and most of the workstations here at work are also Redhat Linux.

    My box at home (PII 400) is dual booting between Redhat 6.2 (2.2.16) and Windows 98 SE. The only time I use windows is to play games.

    /\/\averick

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      /me drools over Mavericks RH network and wishes he didn't work for a company with so many retired Generals and Admirals in it.

      Everyone has their demons....
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        The only ones that are using Winblows are the sales and marketing type guys. All the developers use Linux. There isn't a single NT box in the place. All the e-mail, file sharing, dns, etc, etc is handled by a Linux box.

        /\/\averick

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RE: What OS are you using.
by Cirollo (Friar) on Aug 23, 2000 at 20:09 UTC
    I run Linux 2.2.16 (will be upgraded as soon as I get back to the dorm...) on a Slackware 7 install. I have Win98 but I never boot into it and probably will rm -rf it soon so I can `play' in *BSD. Soon, I will have a laptop running BSD as well.
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RE: What OS are you using.
by gumpu (Friar) on Aug 23, 2000 at 21:40 UTC

    At home Linux (Debian 2.1). At work VMS (on a Dec Alpha). Getting Perl to work on VMS is a bit tricky. With some compile options the Perl fails to compile and with the right options it Fails on 4 of the selftest. Some perl code also fails with filenames of more than 40 characters.

    But Perl it still a wonderful tool to have on VMS especially since I never used VMS until one month ago VMS. It is much like being able to talk your native language in a foreign country :)

    Have Fun, Gumpu

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RE: What OS are you using.
by BlueLines (Hermit) on Aug 23, 2000 at 22:01 UTC
    At work: rh-based linux dualbooting between 2.2.16 (for quake 3) and 2.4.0-test5 (just because)

    At home: OpenBSD 2.7 for webhosting/servers, FreeBSD for my general workstation, BeOS to play around with, and IBM-DOS 6.x to play "Mean 18" on my PS/2-P70 :-)

    BlueLines

    Disclaimer: This post may contain inaccurate information, be habit forming, cause atomic warfare between peaceful countries, speed up male pattern baldness, interfere with your cable reception, exile you from certain third world countries, ruin your marriage, and generally spoil your day. No batteries included, no strings attached, your mileage may vary.
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RE: What OS are you using.
by ZZamboni (Curate) on Aug 24, 2000 at 00:13 UTC
    I do most of my Perl coding on Solaris (Ultra 1, at school). I am currently working on a project on OpenBSD, so I've been doing some coding there too. I run Linux, MacOS (dual-boot G4) and NEXTSTEP (an old NeXTstation I got very cheap) at home, but most of my programming there happens under Linux.

    I have worked on a project that was developed under Solaris. When I ran it under Linux, some strange things happened. For example, some of the programs crashed when exiting (after all the destructors had been called). I never managed to track down the problem.

    --ZZamboni

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RE: What OS are you using.
by BigJoe (Curate) on Aug 24, 2000 at 00:51 UTC
    Currently I work on an entire Win32 network. But I am creating Linux solutions and currently (as of today) running linux as my desktop. IIS has some difficulties with perl there are some steps that are required to make it work.

    --BigJoe

    Learn patience, you must.
    Young PerlMonk, craves Not these things.
    Use the source Luke.
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RE: What OS are you using.
by toadi (Chaplain) on Aug 24, 2000 at 12:00 UTC
    With me it's quite difficult. At home I have:

    Programming machine: P133-64mb rh based(perl5.6).
    Gaming machine PIII500-128mb win98(activestate5.6).

    At work I use my machine with NT as a dumb terminal(with dynamicstate on it).
    I have another machine running to test things on with the latest suse.

    And write things for alpha's,dual-processors etc. which run solaris or redhat/suse using perl 5.6. And sometimes they run *yuck* NT.



    --
    My opinions may have changed,
    but not the fact that I am right

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RE: What OS are you using.
by turnstep (Parson) on Aug 23, 2000 at 20:13 UTC
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