Comment 26 for bug 628087

Am Dienstag, den 07.09.2010, 14:40 +0000 schrieb Mark Shuttleworth:
> Choosing a custom host name is right on the threshold of "necessary",
> afaics. At this stage I'm supportive of the current approach of making
> it a live-CD boot parameter as long as that's well documented. We're
> definitely not going to add it to the questions we expose to every user,
> nor are we going toadd an "Advanced" GUI just for this use case.
>
> Mark
>
note that we ship avahi by default, if you install say five computers
with the same main user all your systems at home are called
<user>-desktop/laptop by default now.
imho as long as we do not offer any way to changing the hostname in a
userfriendly way (without having to edit /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname)
that gets very annoying for people having more than one Ubuntu machine
at home.
i would rather propose to keep the option during maverick abd during
natty add an entry in one one of the system tools to easily change the
system name of an installed system and drop the installer option by
then.

ciao
 oli