I have few servers running Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS and now I will be expanding on few more, both of my dedicated server providers offer new Ubuntu releases, why should I install version 14? I do not need it but maybe I am overseeing something.
I am mostly using Apache, Bind9, Cron, MySQL, PHP, Rsync and SSH. Is it going to be all compatible and working together? Anybody had any conflicts or issues, something working very different?
When I run ubuntu-support-status, I get some unsupported packages, is it worth looking into this stuff from security point of view? Security updates should be supported until April 2017.
$ ubuntu-support-status
Support status summary of 'server X':
You have 47 packages (2.4%) supported until October 2013 (18m)
You have 9 packages (0.5%) supported until December 2016 (18m)
You have 1673 packages (84.5%) supported until April 2017 (5y)
You have 5 packages (0.3%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
You have 246 packages (12.4%) that are unsupported