Ubuntu – Speed up Application Launch
I have Unix experience that goes back a dozen years. After restarting the Linux fad that is going on, I found my Unix skills coming back. I was very impressed that Linux had finally gotten their act together and loaded good drivers and better software and hardware support. I was a little disappointed on how slow some apps launched. Here’s a tip:
Edit your “/etc/hosts” file – Man this hasn’t changed much
sudo gedit /etc/hosts -SUDO Linux’s way of saying it needs admin priviledges (Wow, just like Vista)
You should see something like this
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 onlyubuntu
Now, You need to replace with the following lines:
127.0.0.1 localhost onlyubuntu
127.0.1.1 onlyubuntu
(Replace “onlyubuntu” with your computer’s hostname “computer’s name”)
Save and exit the file
This should help.
