With apologies to my MacOS X brethren, I would not recommend it as my first choice. Don't get me wrong, I love my i-Book running OS X, but the case insensitive filesystem has caused me some grief, I can't get 5.6.1 to build (stock version is 5.6.0) which makes using CPAN a pain (always wants to start off by installing 5.6.1 and fails). Also, as has always been the case with MacOS, the tiny installed base means you are always a bit behind the rest of the world.

At work I use Linux for stuff I will deploy on HP-UX or AIX and have had few problems, but Linux is not UNIX. BSD is, and since you target host is BSD I will side with the other BSD voices on this one.You can run FreeBSD or NetBSD on even older hardware. To run MacOS X you'll need relatively new/fast stuff.

In reply to Re: Re: perl development OS of choice by rah
in thread perl development OS of choice by silent11

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