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I would lean very strongly towards the newer versions of Ubuntu and ROS; either 12.04 and ROS Hydro or 14.04 and ROS Indigo. Indigo is currently in Beta now, and should be released in about a month.

In general, the core ROS API and build system change very slowly, and it shouldn't be too difficult to get older ROS packages to build with newer versions of ROS. Note that you can still use rosbuild if you're building packages from source on Hydro and Indigo.

A bit of searching turns up a few updates to the NXT stacks since Electric:

• https://github.com/maxsieber/nxt - updated for Groovy
• http://wiki.ros.org/sig/NXT - the NXT SIG. It looks like someone is working on a catkinized version targeted at Hydro, but it's hard to tell if it works or not