title: Is there any major difference between XAMPP and LAMP?
body: <p>Recently I sent my CV to a small company which required a web developer, but one condition was that I should know how to work with LAMP. So I took part in the contest, but today I started to wonder if those packages are as similar as I think.</p>
  <p>So, are they?</p>
  <p>I am using: XAMPP (Basispaket) version
  1.7.1 on Windows 7 and planning to install LAMP on Ubuntu 10.04 (don't
  know the version yet).</p>
  <p>UPDATE: I read some articles about LAMP
  setup and I only found, that you just
  need to separately install Apache,
  PHP, and MySQL. I'm confused; so isn't there's
  any control panel like in XAMPP? If so,
  then I'm asking about those major
  differences.</p>