Having to change the hostname post-install is made more awkward by the
fact that it's not just one place it needs to be changed. At the very
least you need to change it in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, but also
some programs (I think postfix is one that springs to mind, but there
might be others less server-oriented) like to make copies of whatever
the hostname is at the time of installation, making it much more likely
to have an inconsistent setup.
Having multiple computers with the same name certainly has opportunities
to be a real pain, especially when casually sharing files between
computers on a network ("which alan-desktop do I click on?"). And while
I understand wanting to make the install process easy and streamlined, I
think Lucid had it just right - set a default, but allow it to be
changed right there and then. Hide it behind something if necessary,
but don't remove it.
I think this should be higher priority than it is. It's a trivial UI
change (if it's time that's the problem, I know I'd be happy to write a
patch), and more importantly the consequence of not fixing it is
frustrating installs for anybody who might slightly care about this
setting for 6 months. It's fine to say it'll be fixed in the next
release, but that doesn't help for the half a year in the meantime!
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Maverick ubiquity lacks option to change computer name
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628087
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