See http://www.rakudo.org/announce/rakudo-star/2010.07 for how to get Rakudo Star, a a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6. I installed it on Red Hat 5 Linux and ran a 'hello, world' program without problems. I plan to try Perl 6 first when writing all new software and only revert to Perl 5 if necessary. -mark