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.
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