The thing in the notification area is just the Apache service monitor, you can even exit that if you want.
You have to tell Apache to load PHP as a module, which is what those lines are supposed to do. Not sure why it's giving you an error. Even if…
Linux is just the kernel, the heart of the OS. Other distro's (Red Hat, Slackware, Gentoo etc) build most of their own stuff. Most Linux things are open source and released under the GPL, so you could basically make your own OS (a lot of Linux distr…
Forget IIS, Apache works perfectly on Windows (and with less of the overhead).
Go download Apache2 and install. Then go download PHP (Zip archive). You can read the Install.txt file, but in a nutshell what you want to do (installing PHP as a SAPI m…
I wouldn't say that. It's based of Unix, yes, but they've been building their own OS since their first computer.
That's like saying Windows and Linux are the same because they both have kernels.