web/lamp/ XAMPP


XAMPP == X Apache MySQL PHP Perl. This provides a 'lamp' stack for Windows, Macos and Linux, importantly, it gives you a similarly configured environment on each operating system. Personally I only use Xampp on Windows, and use the apache+mysql+php+perl that comes with my Linux distro. At home I have an old Lenovo T410 running Kubuntu (and before that Xubuntu.