If you're looking to evaluate, or if you're a Drupal developer, you have got to check out, aka DAMP, that we released at DrupalCon DC today. No doubt most of you are familiar with LAMP, MAMP, WAMP or XAMPP, which are installers designed to help people get started with PHP applications. DAMP is similar to MAMP, WAMP, and XAMPP, except that it comes with Acquia Drupal, and is specifically tuned for Drupal.

Installing Drupal on Windows for local usage. Acquia Dev Desktop (formerly knows as Acquia Stack Installer / DAMP): Includes Drupal, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Acquia Dev Desktop is the Acquia Drupal Stack Installer that includes. Default installation location for the initial sample 'Acquia Drupal' site: Windows XP.

The Acquia Stack Installer includes, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PhpMyAdmin, and an Acquia Drupal Control Panel. The installer has been tested on Macs with OS 10.5 (Intel-based, not PowerPC) as well as all major flavors of Microsoft Windows. For Windows and Mac users, it is the easiest way to get started with Drupal. The installer is available for free, and is part of Acquia's efforts to simplify the Drupal experience for non-technical users.

Acquia Dev Desktop is the fastest way to set up and run Drupal for local development on your Mac or Windows PC. Crazytalk Animator 2 on this page. It's an xAMP stack (or DAMP stack) installer. When Acquia (news, site) came out with the Drupal Stack (DAMP) Installer, many new users likely got very excited. You can use this installer to download and install.

We think it will help the Drupal project grow. If you have friends, family, or co-workers that want to get started with Drupal, the is a great starting point. While designed for end users, the installer is also good for web development. In fact, as part of our alpha testing, I switched from MAMP to Acquia's Stack Installer, and have already suggested some developer improvements for future releases.

One will be to compile the Process Control Extension (PCNTL) into PHP -- something which is not available on MAMP or XAMPP. Enabling PCNTL allows SimpleTest to take advantage of multi-core processors; on a dual core machine this should cut the running time roughly in half. Give it a try, and let us know if you have other suggestions or recommendations. I haven't tried DAMP, so probably it is by some miracle in a much better shape, but. On my relatively decent Vista notebook, Apache and MySQL simply don't perform.

The modules page is a pain (and I'd think this is how Vista behaves. Boot Animation Galaxy Y S5360 Firmware. Especially if you have a few other things running.). So my solution - thus far much faster (modules in a blink:) - is running a VirtualBox with Debian - the usual LAMP. I only gave it 256MB, I have drush with no pain, i have a setup similar to my virtual server on the internet.

So work is much more fun recently:) (just waiting for the deploy module to come back) The whole thing could probably be packaged as well, and distributed along. (I suppose this is similar to what Mike describes? I just don't see the virtualization engine he uses.).