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Perlbox: A Unix Desktop Written in Perl

Posted by chrisd on from the more-than-just-system("bash") dept.

cascadefx writes "It appears that this programmer has created an Open Sourced Unix Desktop, PerlBox, written in Perl and Tk. I found this posted in response to an article on Perl Monks asking if Perl was obsessed with CGI?. Apparently not. Check it out, it looks pretty interesting." I wonder how fast it runs?

6 of 264 comments (clear)

  1. It's a speed demon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder how fast it runs?

    About

    this

    fast

    .

  2. Dammit by Screaming+Lunatic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dammit!!! I would have had first post if it wasn't for this perlbox desktop. ;)

  3. mod_perlbox by phillct · · Score: 5, Funny

    You need mod_perlbox.

    That way you can access your desktop through lynx at a speed increase of 800%. Just format your urls like this:

    http://localhost/desktop/?action=leftclick&xcord=3 21&ycord=567

  4. Perl and XUL by Cally · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've just started looking at XUL, the Mozilla XML User interface Language. All the Mozilla chrome - dialogs, menus, toolbars etc, all of it - is defined in XUL, which looks straightforward XML, driven by Javascript (which /I believe/ is compiled in the binary: yes? no?)

    The only thing really holding me back from using this in my current project (front end management console for the build and test scripts used to QA $AntiVirus_app) in XUL is the lack of a nice drag and drop formbuilder. There's a project to build one - XULMaker - but it seems to be making pretty slow progress and be short of people working on it. Anyway, what I was wondering was, where's the Perl bindings? Being able to say :


    my $g = XUL->new();
    $g->set_window(
    title=> 'Hello world',
    geometry => ([500, 200]),
    ...
    )
    ...and so on would be verrrrry cool. And then we could ALL build our own window managers, using Perl. And this post would be on-topic ;)

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  5. All-Way Flamewar! by krmt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean perl is now trying to compete with Emacs? This could get ugly...

    Ruby vs Python vs Perl running Perlbox vs Emacs running everything vs Linux running KDE vs BSD running Gnome vs Windows vs Solaris running Emacs vs OSX running Virtual PC running Activestate Perl running Perlbox...

    I think we need big a flow chart for this one.

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  6. GNOME: A Unix Desktop Written in C by tps12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It appears that this programmer has created an Open Sourced Unix Desktop, GNOME, written in C. I found this posted in response to an article on C Monks asking if C was obsessed with device drivers? Apparently not. Check it out, it looks pretty interesting. I wonder how fast it runs?

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