In this step-by-step guide from Jack Wallen, learn how to access and modify the Linux hosts file to control the mapping of hostnames to IP addresses. At some point in your career as a developer, ...

So, long story short, I need to change the hostname of my Ubuntu server. The actual changing process seems pretty straightforward. I was able to Google it, and actually do it. Unfortunately, it was ...

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...