I've managed to get parrot building and testing nicely on an os/2 box (thanks to Nick Burch). At the moment it needs gcc, make, bash and dynaloading libraries installed on the system.
Alex Gough -- And if we tamper with our inheritance, so what? What is more ours to tamper with? What makes nature more right than us? If we get it wrong that's because we are stupid, not because the idea was bad. If we get it wrong, too bad. Hand on the baton; best wishes; have fun.