[CentOS-announce] CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release i386 and x86_64

“The CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release CR repository is now available on mirror.centos.org. This repository contains rpms to be included in the next CentOS-5.x release. Because these include security and bugfix updates, we strongly recommend everyone using CentOS-5 install and update their system using this repository.” via [CentOS-announce] CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release i386 and x86_64. Particularly useful if …

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apt-fast and Axel: Roughly 26x Faster apt-get Installations and Upgrades

The apt-fast script I have created is a little shellscript that increases the speed of apt-get by many times. You need to have the axel download accelerator installed, which is a simple, short process, but everything else is extremely straight forward. I started out downloading the upgrades for Kubuntu, at 32kb/s. Not terrible, but not …

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