To speed-up your yum download, you need to install the yum-fastestmirror package. Its a yum plugin which chooses fastest repository from a mirrorlist. This plugin sorts each repository's mirrorlist by connection speed prior to downloading packages.

The Goal of this tutorial

Get a secure, encrypted connection to a remote machine without typing in a password.
What is OpenSSH ?

OpenSSH is a secure way of connecting to remote computers and transfering files. The OpenSSH suite includes the following programs (among others)

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the release of the new stable G:Noblin distribution. The G:Noblin 3.0 is Released.

"I’m happy to announce today that our main product, the Open Source microblogging server Laconica, has a new name.

StatusNet is the new name that simply reflects what our software does: sends status updates into your social network. We think it’s clear and simple, serious without being stuffy."

Charlie Schluting helps admins decide if Xen is a viable alternative to VMWare. Why move away from VMWare? Xen is open source and less expensive. But will it do the job?

Having your Linux distribution suddenly disappear from the internet would put a strain on anyone. It does happen from time to time, however, something the team at Fedora can testify to. Announcing in advance that your distro will pull a David Copperfield would prove far less stressful, and that's exactly what the good people at openSUSE have done.

There are basically two types of desktop email software users. Type one uses one huge folder for all emails while type 2 neatly sorts emails into subfolders for better manageability.

Microsoft is slammed publicly by the Linux Foundation for allegedly attempting to have Linux sued by patent trolls; more patent news