I always use my own perl, never the system perl, so I can decide what version of what module I want installed. I leave the system updater to decide what perl to use/install. I seldom use system perls.

• Laptop, OpenSUSE 10.3: perl-5.10.0/32. 5.00504, 5.6.2, 5.8.7, 5.8.8, and 5.11.0 available
• Workstation, OpenSUSE 10.3: perl-5.8.8/64all. 5.8.7, 5.10.0, and 5.11.0 available.
• Testbox, M$ Win2k: Strawberry 5.10.0
• HP-UX servers (6 different ones): 5.8.8. Will upgrade on 5.10.1
• AIX 5.2.0: perl-5.8.8/64all. No update plans yet, other than hoping the costomers to upgrade to HP-UX or Linux.
• Testbox, M$ Win2k: Cygwin perl-5.10