On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:49:42PM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > Mac OS X and Ubuntu both require the user to pick a machine name at install > time > explicitly. They do not autogenerate one at all.
Sort of. If you install using the example Ubuntu preseed file then by default it will have "unassigned-hostname.unassigned-domain". You're supposed to change this, but if you don't then that's the hostname you will actually get in your new machine. > My proposal is that we should consider changing the default hostname > for Fedora 26 to be either FED-XXXXXXXXXXX or FEDORA-XXXXXXXX. The > former allows for a longer random string and therefore lower risk of > collision in large environments, while the latter would also provide > improved branding for Fedora[2]. Our default BASH shell prompt > includes the current machine's hostname. Having it CAPS doesn't sound very nice ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
