Greetings. I'm in the process of setting up yet another home fileserver, mostly for Samba, general noodling around and having a system running 24x7 for various home automation experiments. Not terribly interesting hardware-wise, Core i3 w/2 4TB drives running software RAID 1. Idle power is around 27W in preliminary testing with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS running nothing beyond the basic LAMP + SSH + CUPS server install, although none of the servers/services have been configured so that may be irrelevant to the power discussion.
With Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) due out in April I'm wondering how risky it would be to use the latest RC for now and then update+upgrade the normal way whenever the release comes out. I have no experience with Ubuntu RCs so am asking here to see if there is typically any reason to re-do the entire system between RC and release. I don't plan on using any cutting edge filesystems (ZFS) or kernel features as I'm not aware of any and frankly I'm far more interested in stability than whiz-bang features to impress my fellow computer afficionados. I can't see installing 14.04 LTS and only getting three years of support/updates when 16.04 is right around the corner. Five years is a pretty good approximation of the time it takes my disk storage needs to double/quadruple. I've heard 20TB drives may be on the horizon for 2020... :) Thanks, NealS _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
