Comments on: Ubuntu: How to Change the Computer Name

By: Lurker

Lurker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:01:38 +0000

I would change the /etc/hosts first if you don't the machine can not create a window. Otherwise works great on Ubuntu 9.04

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:06:08 +0000

Thanks

By: kumareshane1986

kumareshane1986 — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:13:20 +0000

its working pretty cool…

By: ubu-fan

ubu-fan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:38:00 +0000

hey thnx for the tutorial, worked like a charm ;)

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Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:42:44 +0000

You’ll also want to edit /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost hostname 127.0.1.1 hostname

if you don’t make those changes it has the possibility of slowing your machine to an absolute crawl. I say this only because I changed my hostname the same way as your tip and Gnome became about as slow as molasses in a Montana winter.