Speed Up Ubuntu with a Simple Tweak

In Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) and 7.04 (Feisty) a misconfiguration in your hosts file could be slowing GNOME applications down when they start Open /etc/hosts as root in a text editor. If you see something like this:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1 computername

Change it to this:

127.0.0.1       localhost computername
127.0.1.1 computername

Replace computername with your Ubuntu computer’s name. The bug report for this problem can be found here.