Compare to other existing options

Great advice, thanks. I'll add it into the Project Description.

If I didn't already have and existing dev environment (and Aegir) setup on my Ubuntu machine, and was looking for a quick way to setup a local dev environment, I'd probably go with Acquia Dev Desktop -- except that Acquia Dev Desktop is only available for Mac OS X and that other OS (whats-it-called? ...the one based on all of Gary Kildall's hard work?). Anyway, as I understand it, the Ubuntu/Debian .deb package of Acquia Drupal only sets up a single local Drupal installation, not multiple local dev sites for developing different drupal projects concurrently in isolation of each other.

On the other hand, if someone wanted to take an Ubuntu dev environment for a quick test-drive, I'd recommend Quickstart. It's a great way to have a look-see of how Ubuntu, Drupal, Eclipse (and optionally Aegir) can work together in one environment. And creating on VM per dev project is an interesting approach to really keeping the dev sites isolated. But I find Quickstart a little sluggish for my needs (despite my 8 gigs of RAM). Plus it seems rather redundant to have one Ubuntu virtual machine per dev site running on my Ubuntu machine which can already handle multiple dev sites and Aegir at the same time.

Don't get me wrong, I think both Acquia Dev Desktop and Quickstart are great projects, just not suited to my particular web development needs.