However implausible that sounds, one must admit- that sounds pretty cool. Having a OS native to Perl code would certainly mean a speed boost (kernel embedded Perl interpreter? THAT'S NUTS!), as well as slick Perl-native API. The OS could even specify various atomic operators and functions, hence making PerlThreads a reality. I would love to see such a beast, but I wouldn't want to work on it. Look at the complexity of the Linux or AtheOS kernels. Brutal! While a good chunk may or may not be replaceable with legible Perl code, the benefits of such an OS are probably overrated and minimal (as I described above). I do believe that there is a PerlFS (not yet functional?) which would be an obvious start.

What I would really like to see is a boot-floppy which mounts Linux partitions, includes a tar-gzipped Perl with appropriate libs which would then autorun some Perl script on the disk. Then you could do stuff like reconfigure an entire room of computters (sic) with the bootdiskette where you don't have insecure/slow apps like NetInstall running. I'm simply not knowledgable enough about bootable systems to come up with something like this.

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