That was more than 10 years ago. :smileygrin:

I think either it wasn't often used, so it didn't justify the effort. Or since 2006/2007, the VMware ecosystem has grown massively. Today you could build dozens of LAMP appliances to suit everyone. Ubuntu alone has 3 current versions out there and the Linux distributions are getting more and more.

Furthermore, the trend for such "encapsulated" applications is more towards containers and these are universally applicable and do not have to be maintained by this community.

But maybe there are other reasons I just don't think about.