It is a pre packed stack. It helps me to reduce a lot of coding works. In Linux, I can easliy install by using simple commands. I don't think so LAMP stack have any competitor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The thing i dont like with LAMP stack is, you can't update the version of PHP while installing the LAMP stack! LAMP stack need to be configured in order if it fails, need to restart everything from the scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If you are looking for open source web development stack then (Lamp stack)Linux, Apache, MySQL & Php : hypertext preprocessor is perfect for you. From Content management system to developing and deploying stable web applications from scratch , LAMP stack provides great environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Needed to mangually configure the scripting language plugins. More an extra step nothing to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.