Daily Doings at the Line of Death Bar & Grill

One of the things I can do with my laptop is to set up what's called a LAMP server -- Linux OS, Apache web server, MySQL database, and Perl scripting language. I'd like to do this for the practical experience. Other than these 4 items, are there any other components which I should install under Linux? (I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.2 on the laptop.)

[Updated 16:35] According to this article, it looks like I need to be running the *server* version of Ubuntu, not the desktop version. Frak.