XAMPP is mentioned most often in this forum and elsewhere, but this link...
http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/07/18/how-to-install-wordpress-in-windows-vista/
...helpfully walks the reader through screenshots for BitNami. Anyone have any feel for BitNami vs. XAMPP?
Looking ahead at a probable requirement of either package, one of the BitNami screenshots shows "Hostname" and an IP address as the answer. For a development desktop machine not exposed to the web, can someone advise what I should enter?