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Request #66911 XAMPP and Bitnami are same on download page
Submitted: 2014-03-15 13:21 UTC Modified: 2014-03-15 18:06 UTC
From: sidagar8 at gmail dot com Assigned: bjori (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Website problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Windows and Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-03-15 13:21 UTC] sidagar8 at gmail dot com 
Description:
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I was looking for a LAMP stack and downloaded XAMPP and Bitnami as your download page shows that as stacks.
I learnt that XAMPP and Bitnami are now the same :
http://www.apachefriends.org/blog/news-article-203924.html

Your download page recommneds Bitnami and Xampp seperately while they both are the same :
http://php.net/downloads.php

So clubbing them into one entry for linux, one for MAC and one for windows would be good.

Also I finally used the LAMP stack suggested by my webhost - AMPPS :
http://ampps.com/download

Your download page lists only MAC version of Ampps while there is a linux version as well which is great for development as it has Softaculous. I have used softaculous with my hosting many a times.

Regards,
Sidhartha

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 [2014-03-15 15:40 UTC] daniel at bitnami dot com 
Dude ...

If you want to promote AMPPS, that is fine. Trying to get links removed to competing, open source solutions, is not cool and I cannot avoid thinking this is a bit of (botched) astroturfing.

XAMPP and Bitnami are two completely different stacks, with different compilation options, licenses (GPL vs Apache) and distribution methods (XAMPP includes ZIP files with the binaries, Bitnami does not. Bitnami includes VMs, XAMPP does not). 

The "Bitnami and XAMPP joined forces" means that after 10 years the original XAMPP maintainers wanted to move on from the project and reached out to us to help maintain the builds, update the PHP version, etc. not that the projects or the installers are the same

Daniel Lopez, Bitnami cofounder, XAMPP co-maintainer
 [2014-03-15 17:31 UTC] bjori@php.net 
Added linux and windows links to ampps.

If anyone has suggestions how to improve this list, redesign it, move it, .. I'd be happy to hear any suggestions.
 [2014-03-15 18:06 UTC] bjori@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: bjori
 [2014-03-16 09:06 UTC] sidagar8 at gmail dot com 
Hi,

I never knew Bitnami is available on AWS.
I checked it and used on my new AWS account and I am impressed.
Keep up the good work.
BTW, do you have a tool to PUSH local WordPress installations to AWS live environments ? If yes, that will be great. I would love to use it, please do let me know.

P.S. I am not trying to promote AMPPS. I just made a suggestion as I genuinely liked it over XAMPP.

Regards,
Sidhartha
 
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