New server: Sarge or Etch?

["Marco De Vitis" <marcodevitis@gmail.com>]

Hi,
in the next few days I'll have to replace an old server running Debian
Sarge with a new machine, and I was wondering: maybe I should directly
install Etch on it, now that it almost reached its "stable" status?

I know I could install Sarge and then upgrade to Etch afterwards, but
a previous upgrade from Woody to Sarge was not totally successful, so
I'd prefer to avoid this, if possible.

It's a production server so stability is important, although it mostly
serves as a Samba PDC and file sharing machine, mailserver only for
internal (LAN) mail, and some other minor stuff (HTTP, Jabber...).

Thanks.

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Ciao,
 Marco.