Firman Wandayandi has posted a new item on his weblog today that talks about the conflict between people wanting to get into *AMP application development and the difficulty for quite a bit of the computing population to get it all installed.

Almost all my friends who want to learn PHP for the first time, always ask the questions like below: How to install PHP? How to connect into MySQL? Do I need to install MySQL to make PHP run properly?

After I helped them to install Apache, PHP and MySQL, everything is ok, then they can start to learn. Then after few days, they come again and tell that their PHP cannot run. I asking to myself. Is it too hard to make the AMP run?

It's interesting that he's thinking this way - mainly because there are projects like ApacheFriends.org that are seeking to get these bits of software installed on just about any OS. Plus, with other operating systems coming preinstalled with a distribution, it's making it easier than ever...