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It likely could run on something similar to them, but it would be a custom configured version or is more likely direct setups of the same technologies that these things bundle. They are just pre-packaged things that are bundling the Apache web server with some add-ons or other tech, like PHP and MySQL.
You could just install Apache on your own and add in what you wanted as well, these just kind of fool proof it for a quick dev environment that isn't going to be public facing. I wouldn't want to use one of these prebuilt things meant for a dev to host a real world site necessarily.
Another web server option if you have a windows box laying around is IIS. If you develop with visual studio you don't even really need a web server to test, it has a hostable IIS core that will just spin up to let you test when you want and isn't running outside of that time. Most recently any hobby projects I've worked on I've used this tech and deployed things to Azure <-- though I can't recommend this for most people's hobby things since there would be a cost, if I didn't have a monthly allowance on there I would probably be just running IIS on a machine in my basement to deploy to for access away from my dev environment
You could just install Apache on your own and add in what you wanted as well, these just kind of fool proof it for a quick dev environment that isn't going to be public facing. I wouldn't want to use one of these prebuilt things meant for a dev to host a real world site necessarily.
Another web server option if you have a windows box laying around is IIS. If you develop with visual studio you don't even really need a web server to test, it has a hostable IIS core that will just spin up to let you test when you want and isn't running outside of that time. Most recently any hobby projects I've worked on I've used this tech and deployed things to Azure <-- though I can't recommend this for most people's hobby things since there would be a cost, if I didn't have a monthly allowance on there I would probably be just running IIS on a machine in my basement to deploy to for access away from my dev environment
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Lol no Flux doesn't run on these. But you typically could. These like @ndboarder said are mostly for testing purposes. I have been using one to test web dev for websites. I just wanted to list them for future purposes since MAMP was new to me.