My Pharo Image
I no longer use Squeak, I've switched to Pharo because the team working on it knows what working programmers want from an open source Smalltalk, while the Squeak community is too unfocused with too many legacy users preventing any real progress from being made.
Squeak was build for kids but turned out to be great for getting serious work done, unfortunately it still looks like it's built for kids though they aren't really the user base as far as I can see. Pharo seems intent on fixing that flaw and building a serious, clean, professional looking open source Smalltalk for serious developers.
So far it's been the best Squeak image I've had. It looks better and better every day and the image keeps shrinking as they strip more and more old dead and useless stuff from it.
This is my current basic development image. It's a customized Pharo image which is based on a Squeak 3.9.1 image. I've tweaked the look and feel a bit for my tastes, added a few extensions to Seaside and some other packages.
These are all the packages I use on a regular basis, and there's a bunch of stuff in here in private ports of some open source packages, just look for anything with rjl initials on it. This is my "stable" image at the moment, all the packages are not totally up to date, staying too up to date can be dangerous when you're trying to get work done.
I usually start with this, load up the latest of my personal code, merge in latest from open source projects, and off I go. I do this rarely, choosing mostly to live in an image I keep up to date, but this basic one comes in handy from time to time when I want to start over, or experiment with some stuff.
Included in the zip, is the VM and sources for windows. I make no guarantees, or provide any support beyond simple questions on my own time if you have problems. I'm sharing this because I think some windows programmers might appreciate something setup by someone like them, ready to run, all in one zip, that looks and feels a lot less freaky than the standard Squeak image. For the Linux folk, myself now included, you'll only need the image and changes files.
Happy Smalltalking!
--- Ramon Leon