Editing Portal:FreeBSD,OpenBSD,etc (section)

=== Historical importance ===

The BSD family is important to Perl history because BSD systems are close to Perl’s Unix roots. Perl grew up in the same culture of text files, shell scripts, system administration, mail tools, source trees, ports, manual pages, and practical automation.

OpenBSD demonstrates the strongest continuing base-system commitment to Perl. FreeBSD demonstrates the consequences of moving Perl out of base. NetBSD demonstrates Perl’s package portability through pkgsrc. DragonFly demonstrates how Perl follows a ports-derived ecosystem in a smaller BSD.

These systems also show that Perl’s value is not only in web applications or CPAN modules. Perl has been useful inside operating-system infrastructure itself: package tools, port-generation tools, build scripts, regression tools, documentation helpers, and administration utilities.