I keep toying with the idea of doing a perl-oriented linux distro, which among other things would be the ultimate perl webserver: bricolage, slash, twiki and so on would all be installed by default and set-up to work together smoothly, when plugged together in different ways.

We might not be able to win over the ISPs at this point (which rightly or wrongly have decided it's less dangerous to give newbies PHP to play with than mod_perl), but it ought to be possible to make setting up your own server (almost) as easy as booting off of the right disk.