Hi, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:18:50AM -0400, 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? > If you want perl to be _that_ new, there won't be many distros that can satisfy you. Distros that build from source have a decent chance of using the developer tree, so Gentoo/funtoo maybe. However that's a considerable time investment to install a whole system from source. How about using whatever distro you like and installing perl from source? $ clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git perl $ cd perl $ git tag | tail v5.13.2 v5.13.3 v5.13.4 v5.13.5 v5.13.6 v5.13.7 v5.13.8 v5.13.9 v5.14.0-RC1 v5.14.0-RC2 $ git checkout v5.13.9 (or 5.14.0-RC2 if you are feeling brave.) You'd be able to follow the development tree however close you want. In fact: $ git log commit 19bfff0f437aaac271c0658c51d56954ab685688 Author: Jesse Vincent <jesse [ at ] bestpractical [ dot ] com> Date: Mon May 9 11:31:27 2011 -0400 Remove the "RC2" marker in preparation for Wednesday's final release. You can even go back to an old version. http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/tags Perl 1.0 anyone? I like how the "The master branch, where the development takes places, is named blead." > > -- > Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, > Shawn > > Confusion is the first step of understanding. > > Programming is as much about organization and communication > as it is about coding. > > The secret to great software: Fail early & often. > > Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS. Cheers! -Phil