Which Linux for just a web server?

Hi --

I am a Windows "guy" but I have an old P-3 machine that I want to play
around with Linux on. I do web design / development and I have played a
little with Apache on Windows. I am looking for a recommendation for a
version of Linux to install that will serve as the basic O/S that I can
then install Apache and MySQL onto to start to (try) to learn to build
dynamic web sites with using probably PHP. I'm not sure if I can just
install the kernal and then add the webserver and SQL on top of that or
what, so I'm looking for tips on which distribution has the least
amount of overhead.

Thanks,

Rich

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