Carl Hage

I had recently purchased one of this MSI Wind netbooks to take with me to university instead of lugging around my huge HP notebook. I was suddenly confronted with the dilema that it comes with Windows XP, something which I was not too pleased about really. Being a Linux system admin I felt it was time to get a full linux system going as I was sick of dual-booting my HP system. Initially I tried a couple of linux distro’s and played around with them, Ubuntu, LinuxMint, and Fedora were my candidates. The debian based distros did not play very well at all with my hardware and couldn’t pick up the 1024×600 screen resolution and kept me down to 800×600, something you certainly do not appreciate on a 10″ screen. I will go into some of the steps required to get your MSI Wind running Fedora Core 10 to run perfectly.

Let’s face it being a good system administrator is no simple task, you firstly need the correct mindset, skills and knowledge to provide the best support you can to your customers within rapid time frames. The calls will not stop coming, that is guaranteed. However the way which you deal with them and the speed with which you can figure out the problem and give some insight and resolution matters. I have compiled a short list of what I deem to be essential Firefox Add-ons for the System Administrator.

 And at the end you see it all coming from a Coca-cola bottle, very smart and visually it looks brilliant.