Adrian Rossouw has been a long-time contributor to the Drupal project and even claims the Drupal.org user id of 1337. He was a co-founder of Bryght, and helped develop the Hostmaster system for deploying sites. That has since evolved into the Aegir system as well as the command-line toolkit of drush.

These are some of the components behind Adrian's vision and the larger Smallcore movement to make Drupal distributions work easier and more widely used in the Drupal community. Adrian also talks about the future of Drupal distributions and what it means in Drupal 7 to have installation profiles be treated as modules that came out a series of issues linked from the following issue: Fix some conceptual problems with install profiles and make them actually usable

Adrian also talks about how this will tie into apt-get and how piecing together Drupal websites is moving towards the same ways that people manage Linux distributions.