---
title: "Adrian Rossouw on Aegir, Drush and the future of Drupal Distributions"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/adrian-rossouw-on-aegir-drush-and-the-future-of-drupal-distributions"
type: episode
date: 2009-10-15
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Adrian Rossouw on Aegir, Drush and the future of Drupal Distributions

#  Adrian Rossouw on Aegir, Drush and the future of Drupal Distributions 

  

*Podcast episode player*

[Adrian Rossouw](http://drupal.org/user/1337) has been a long-time contributor to the Drupal project and even claims the Drupal.org user id of [1337.](http://drupal.org/user/1337) He was a co-founder of Bryght, and helped develop the [Hostmaster](http://drupal.org/project/hostmaster) system for deploying sites. That has since evolved into the [Aegir](http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system) system as well as the command-line toolkit of [drush.](http://drupal.org/project/drush)

These are some of the components behind Adrian's vision and the larger [Smallcore](https://seo.drupalaid.com/) 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](http://drupal.org/node/509404)

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.