Software sources for Mint
My ISP (iiNet) mirrors Ubuntu, but not Mint. Aside from being free content, it’s also the fastest download coming from the iiNet mirror.
Since Mint is so closely based on Ubuntu, it seems to use the same repos. So what I’ve done, is opened /etc/apt/sources.list (take a copy first) and done a find and replace to replace:
archive.ubuntu.com
with
A little apt-get update once you’re done, and it seems to work fine. The Mint-specific stuff comes off the normal mirrors, and the Ubuntu stuff (which I think is the bulk of it) comes off my ISP.
