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Choose 11.10 or 10.04 for file, and proxy servers?

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I'm setting up 2 servers at a small school. Wondering if I should use the latest version (always my instinct) or go with 10.04LTS.

1. FILE SERVER:
Main file server Single Sign On with LDAP and NFS probably Kerberos. Migrating users and their home dirs from a CentOS (release 5-4el5) NIS + NFS system. I might try to squeeze some life out of some aging pentium3s by running them as thin clients off this machine.

2. PROXY
DNS, DHCP, Squid, Dansguardian, CUPS print server.

Also one of these has to be nominated to do some Samba sharing for our Xerox Docucentre IV to send scans to, as I can't seem to get it to work with FTP, but that is another story...

Clients are mostly running older Fedora versions, but most are going to be moved to current Ubuntu or Xubuntu, as hardware permits. Laptop users have mixed OSes and phones and iPads are all over the network. Only going for single sign on for desktops at the moment.

What are the pros and cons of choosing the latest OS version over older versions?

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answered 2 Years ago bblerest · Accepted Answer

It's quite simple in my eyes:

LTS - proven, known stable, no nasty surprises waiting for you, but you have slightly older packages.

Latest - take your chances with stability (though Ubuntu is normally quite good), at the benefit of newer packages.

Which should you use? I would lay down your feature requirements and see if the packages in LTS can provide you with it. If you need something that's only been added since LTS, then you'll have to look at the latest one, otherwise the choice is easy.