Hi,

Fedora is being publishing its latest versions as Desktop edition now a days. In this regard, i was wondering whether this desktop edition will cater servers such as squid proxy, apache, mysql, samba etc., that were available in old server edition.

Alternatively, i need a suggestion to use other free Linux distro in place of Fedora which can provide all the above features with easy implementation and persistence.

regards

Ekalavya.

Fedora will NEVER cater to the server
with a 6 month release cycle and a 13 month life span
support for ONLY 13 months
i would NOT want to work in a server room with 100+ fedora servers having to REINSTALL all the OS's EVERY 6 MONTHS
then bug fix ALL of them - a very BIG pain in the "BLEEP"

so there is NO fedora server version free or not free

for a server install RHEL6.1 or Debian Stable
or the free CentOS 6.1 or scientificLinux6.1

or SELS 11 - not free ( great with MS windows AD - Microsoft actively supports it )
or Ubuntu LTS

'Desktop' Linuxes can always have server programs installed; this does not make them really sensible choices, most of the time, as a server, for exactly the 'support' reason.

Configuring a server, and testing everything that you have configured, and debugging and correcting any problems can be something that takes time and can be stressful. You don't want to do this more often than necessary.

Need? Oh, well. I suggest that you use another free Linux Distro in place of Fedora. If you want a list, you can use this page at distrowatch to list what they classify as server distros. This is a long enough list that you shouldn't be short of choice, although they have allowed in some distros that, imho, shouldn't really be there (they have allowed in some that suffer from exactly the problem that Fedora does, including Fedora itself).

If you want to remain with something as similar to Fedora as possible (and you don't say that you do), then it would make sense to go with RedHat (not zero cost) and derivatives (eg, Centos, Scientific).