Variants and Equivalents On Other Platforms
Main article: List of AMP packages See also: List of web application frameworksWith the growing use of LAMP, variations and retronyms appeared for other combinations of operating system, web server, database, and software language. For example the equivalent installation on a Microsoft Windows operating system is known as WAMP. An alternative running IIS in place of Apache called WIMP. Variants involving other operating systems include MAMP (Macintosh), SAMP (Solaris), FAMP (FreeBSD) and iAMP (iSeries). The web server or database management system also vary. LEMP is a version where Apache has been replaced with the more lightweight web server NGINX. A version where MySQL has been replaced by PostgresSQL is called LAPP.
A server running LAMP may be colloquially known as a lamp box, punning on the type of post box. The GNU project is advocating people to use the term "GLAMP" since what is known as "Linux" includes the GNU tools as well as the Linux kernel
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