Wow. Gnome-terminal and nautilus launch within a second now. They use to take at least 2 seconds.
If I read the comments here 'correctly' this is not a bug, but a workaround for bugs in _some_ applications. Nevertheless, it might be a good idea to apply this patch by default, just for Feisty. As a sort of short-term 'fix'. -- [feisty] Slow gnome application startup due to /etc/hosts misconfiguration https://launchpad.net/bugs/94048 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs