[CentOS] Any compelling reasons to upgrade to 5

[Joe Pruett]

> I typically buy a new drive, install the newer OS to that, and set up
> a vmware instance pointed at the raw disks with the old install on it,
> so I can boot up the old system at the same time as the new one if
> necessary.  Often I get a newer/faster CPU at the same time, so the
> old system still works about as well as it ever did even under
> virtualization (sometimes it even gets faster).
>
> I'm looking forward to finding out whether Xen makes this possible in
> CentOS 5 without VMware.

i think i read that rhel4u5 will have xen in it as well.  i can't recall 
where i saw it.  might have been someone getting confused between u5 and 
rhel5...