Creating and publishing Forge packages for Linux (Fedora, Debian & Ubuntu) would really help boost adoption of Forge, IMO. Telling someone to download an unzip seems simple enough, but there's just something even more elegant about:
sudo apt-get install jboss-forge
or
sudo yum install jboss-forge
(no sudo if you're hip enough, one of those GUIs if your glitzy enough)
I just discovered today that Fedora is trying to make package development easier than ever for Java developers. They've created a plugin for Eclipse [1] that walks you through creating a package, starting from git clone all the way to publish to Bodhi [2] (think of it like Nexus for Fedora, sort of).
This may seem premature, but *trust me*, we want to think about this *well* in advance so that we have some chance of getting into Fedora 17 or 18. (The process for Debian / Ubuntu may go faster).
Btw, this will likely relate, tie into or help drive the JBoss AS7 on Fedora initiative [3].