Quickstart is many technologies integrated and packaged together:
1) LAMP stack for Drupal, with contrib scripts for adding Drupal specific technologies (solr, memcache, etc.)
2) IDE's configured for debugging, profilers for performance measurement, email debuging
3) Development environment configuration (shell shortcuts, browser configs, etc.)
4) Custom drush commands for automating basic Drupal installs
Quickstart's goal is to integrate the best existing tools into one easy to download pre-configured virtual machine, saving dozens of hours of researching and configuring dev tools.
Yes, Quickstart can do multi-site - better than any stock Windows, OSX, or Linux install. Anything it "can't" do out-of-the-box, you can customize however you like - just like any computer - because it's a virtual machine.
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Multisite?
Hi Datenrettung,
Quickstart is many technologies integrated and packaged together:
1) LAMP stack for Drupal, with contrib scripts for adding Drupal specific technologies (solr, memcache, etc.)
2) IDE's configured for debugging, profilers for performance measurement, email debuging
3) Development environment configuration (shell shortcuts, browser configs, etc.)
4) Custom drush commands for automating basic Drupal installs
Quickstart's goal is to integrate the best existing tools into one easy to download pre-configured virtual machine, saving dozens of hours of researching and configuring dev tools.
Yes, Quickstart can do multi-site - better than any stock Windows, OSX, or Linux install. Anything it "can't" do out-of-the-box, you can customize however you like - just like any computer - because it's a virtual machine.
Give it a try and find out!
Mike
Yes it can.
A small howto can be found here:
http://drupal.org/node/1109488#comment-6882066