Quick and dirty
Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, 12.04
And use these commands to make sure your system has everything it need to compile, run *coin daemons and other tools.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties screen git python-rrdtool python-pygame python-scipy python-twisted python-twisted-web python-imaging build-essential libglib2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev python-dev libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev autoconf automake ncurses-dev sysstat libboost-all-dev gcc-mingw32 libmysql++-dev cloog-ppl build-essential automake gcc libevent-dev libmemcached-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev zlib1g-dev libjansson-dev curl memcached libtool unzip freeglut3-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev build-essential freeglut3-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev mpich2
Not optimized for space usage when it comes to packages..