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Linux Mint Aims For More Reliable & Faster Repository Access
Linux Mint is working on providing 'ultra fast' repositories for users obtaining system updates and installing new packages on this popular desktop Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu.
Linux Mint is working on boosting the performance of their package repositories by using a content delivery network (CDN) via Fastly. During this beta period users wanting to try out the faster repositories will need to change their APT sources location from packages.linuxmint.com to fastly.linuxmint.io. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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