Acronym for FreeBSD/Apache/MySQL/PHP, Python, (and/or) PERL The
acronym FAMP refers to a set of free (open source) applications
which are commonly used in Web server environments. The FAMP
stack provides developers with the four key elements of a Web
server: an the operating system, database, Web server and Web
scripting software. The combined usage of these programs is
called a server stack. In this stack FreeBSD is the operating
system (OS), Apache is the Web server, MySQL handles the
database components, while PHP, Python, or PERL represents the
dynamic scripting languages.