On Tue, 10 May 2011, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> I've upgraded by Ubuntu to 11.04. What a piece of junk. If this is
> the best Canonical can do, it's time to switch distro.
>
> I'm looking for one that can do some development work. My favourite
> language is Perl, so it's got to be able to do that. Now, you're
> thinking all the distros come with Perl, so it's a minor point but I
> need to run the latest and greatest. Most distros come with Perl
> 5.10 (some still have 5.8) but I need to run 5.12 (stable) and 5.14
> (beta).
>
> Any recommendations?
you might consider fedora. currently, fedora 14 ships with perl
5.12.3, and the fedora 15 release is only a few days away, but that
will still (AFAIK) ship with 5.12.3. fedora has typically been really
aggressive about having a decent development environment.
rday
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