RE: [cobalt-users] Scoop on a RaQ4 with factory software: How much more work?

["Jeff Curnow" <jcurnow@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Perl isn't a daemon, so it doesn't run constantly - IOW, no, it's not 
>running, but that's not a problem.

D'Oh!



>Are you command-line savvy? Try this:

>~ $ perl -v

>On our Qube3, I get this:

>This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux

>...and some more license and documentation stuff.

>If you search the archives, Bruce once posted instructions for
installing 
>a newer version of Perl outside the "normal" path so it wouldn't break 
>your GUI, but if you don't need to, so much the better.

>pjm

Thanks - I've been going through the archives like crazy - but couldn't
find anything specific to perl 5. I finally just dove in and asked.