Installation suggestions

[Ben Snyder]

Hi folks

Forgive me if this is the wrong list, or if this topic has been covered...

First off, I've been using Ubuntu for a little over a month.  Great 
distro, until now I've used nothing but Debian at home and CentOS at 
work.  The only problem I see so far is that the desktop install doesn't 
give any options.  It would be great to have a developer version, which 
installs gcc, g++, autoconf, gnu make, etc.  Maybe this doesn't appeal 
to the target user base, though it would make my life as an admin much 
simpler. 

For now I've had to come up with a shell script to apt-get many 
additional packages before my users have a useful system in place.

Thanks,
Ben Snyder