Change hostname

As the Raspberry Pi standard comes with the name raspberrypi, you might want to change this to something more descriptive so if you have more than one Pi in your network, you know which one is which.

The process in easy, you just have to edit one file and reboot your Raspberry Pi.

sudo vi /etc/hostname

Here you can practice your vi skills, or you can change vi in the command for nano. As you see, there is one line in this file that reads raspberrypi. Change this to what you want the pi to be named, and save the document. Then type:

sudo reboot

After a little wait, you can login to your RPi again and you will see the name change has taken effect.