I'd suggest these too for the command line:

sudo apt-get install htop iftop php5-memcache libpam-cracklib shorewall-doc auth-client-config libvarnish1 ncftp nscd shorewall varnish mtr

I'm a fan of Inkscape along with Gimp. But so glad you've got Meld in there.

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Hi Mgifford,

Yeah it's a tough balance between keeping the image size down and the functionality up.

I think Inkscape is pretty lightweight, I'll check it out for the next release.

Thanks!

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Absolutely Michael, it's a tough balance. You've done a great job here. I'm keen on Inkscape as I think that we should be encouraging Drupal developers to use it more to share core themes. Just so much easier to modify SVG files and heck it can even support version control.

Anyways, thanks for considering this. I'd love it if there were also a CentOS version for one of our clients, but that's a much taller order.

How often will you be making releases and what's the easiest way to keep up with them? Is it a 1G+ download with every release?

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karens commented

+1 for the idea of including varnish and memcache. This would make it easy to create a local site that is similar to a real world setup and locally test things like the vcl configuration.

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mike stewart commented

One idea to help maintain a small image, yet provide super easy pre-configured installation, would be to install and configure extra things like varnish & memcache, then uninstall them before making the final image.

That way they're already configured for anyone that needs them, but the image remains lightweight.

Optionally include some documentation with simple apt-get install comands... or simply a small bash or additional qs drush script -- for anyone that needs it.

re: Inkscape. I love it. but it's soo simple to install and nothing to configure thats specific to a Drupal development workflow. I feel it should just be on a list of recommended apps for linux newbies.

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Absolutely on the documentation. Could possibly have a README on the desktop with some other suggestions that are easy to get going with.

I like Bluefish as an editor, but also just discovered Geany as an option.

A list of a few options with the simple instructions for post-installation additions would be useful.

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mike stewart commented

@mgiffod, yes geany rocks!: http://groups.drupal.org/node/200903#comment-662618

@KarenS I meant to comeback yesterday and mention (I rediscovered) that inside the quickstart folder there are a bunch of contrib install scripts for things like:

* Aegir - Hosting management platform
* Hudson - Continious integration server
* memcached - Memory object caching system
* Oracle - Insanity in a DB server. Legacy apps.
* Solr - Search server

checkout /home/quickstart/quickstart/

however, varnish isn't there yet...

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That's great Mike. Thanks for posting that info about Geany. I've shared it with my team.

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