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.