This is the easiest distro for making an AMP server with a Mac. I have used Marc Liyanege's packages (thanks, Marc, for being the first) but they require considerable technical expertise. I liked the Server Logistics packages because they were easier and had a PHP accelerator built in. But those packages have not been upgraded in a while and require separate piece-by-piece installation. MAMP does all the pieces in one operation and the accelerator is built in. Now my only wish is that Apple build a Darwin kernel that allows MySQL to directly address the kernel like Linex does. Then we will have a truly fast server, comparable to anything else in the world.