Kubuntu ( Ubuntu KDE Gnome-mater ), LAMP: Eclipse PDT ( Aptana, ), MySQL...
... But I suppose that any Linux distribution will do; you may not always have the latest versions of PHP / MySQL, but PHP 5.2.x should be available for most distributions, I suppose.
And, if necessary, you can compile what you need from sources (sometimes I do it for PHP to get the latest version, since Ubuntu provides only 5.2.x, not 5.3.x)
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