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Summary: As complete as I need...
Review: I like this book. It's simple and not pretentious - it doesn't promote Solaris as the answer to all our prayers (read: it's honest), but it does cover Sun and third-party software (unlike the other Sol books on amazon). This one never makes it to my bookshelf - I always have it open on my desk. My only complaint is that there's no companion CD-ROM. Maybe it will be sold as an e-book in the future??
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Summary: The Incomplete "Complete Reference"
Review: I probably wouldn't have been as disappointed as I am with the book if it had been titled properly. It is anything but complete.
If you have money to blow, buy it to add to your references if studying for the certifications, but frankly it is far from a reference. I just hope I can remember what topics it does address well. Those that it does address in ernest are well written and readablably understandable to the newbie, which I did appreciate, but I stopped carrying it to class as a supplement because it seldom has anything I need (or maybe its just that the index [stinks]...?).
Rating:
Summary: The Incomplete "Complete Reference"
Review: I probably wouldn't have been as disappointed as I am with the book if it had been titled properly. It is anything but complete.
If you have money to blow, buy it to add to your references if studying for the certifications, but frankly it is far from a reference. I just hope I can remember what topics it does address well. Those that it does address in ernest are well written and readablably understandable to the newbie, which I did appreciate, but I stopped carrying it to class as a supplement because it seldom has anything I need (or maybe its just that the index [stinks]...?).
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Summary: Incomplete Reference
Review: I purchased this book to assist me in the reconfiguration of a Sun UltraSparc 250 that had been removed from service. I want to set it up to be a static DNS server for reverse lookups. This book has not been very good at assisting. Many of the web references for example files are invalid. Over all, this book is good for the basics, but not enough to raise the experience level up much.
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Summary: A beginners overview of Solaris
Review: I suppose that it would be helpful to folks that aren't currently familiar with Solaris, but with a title like ``The Complete Reference ...,'' I was hoping for something a little more, well, complete. There was absolutely nothing in this book that I did not already know by heart and little that couldn't be discovered by reading a few man pages. To be specific, there was little to no mention of the newish Solaris features like LDAP and DHCP clients. It's really more of a general Unix overview with a Solaris flavor. Definitely for the beginner to early intermediate.
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Summary: Excellent overall
Review: I think this book is great. It has many good chapters covering the main areas of running a Solaris system. I like the fact that it covers alternatives to standard Solaris software (e.g., one whole chapter on Samba). There is also good coverage of NIS+ and routing. I setup my work Solaris network using this book alone!
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Summary: Good for Solaris beginners
Review: I use Linux, but I buy this book two weeks ago when I wanted to run the Solaris program. It is really good (some commands are even the same). The English is easy to understand and there are good examples. Many problems solved in these pages. Best chapter is about devices - Solaris /dev is more difficult than Linux I think.
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Summary: Incomplete Reference! Rating- (no stars)
Review: I was looking for a good Solaris 8 reference, this is not it. I had the book 10 minutes, here's what I found. The first things I tried to look up in my new complete reference were the new Solaris 8 commands prstat, psinfo, and sdtprocess - nothing about them. How about a few words on the Solaris Product registry which is also new in Solaris 8 for managing software pkgs- nothing. Page 253 shows a script that can be used for unmounting a busy file system- hey, what about the new Solaris 8 umount -f option for unmounting busy file systems- nothing about it. I could go on and on about stuff missing in this book, but I think you get the point. Did they even look at Solaris 8 before writing this book. It appears the publisher was more concerned with getting a book out first than a "real" complete Solaris 8 guide. Oh, and BTW- mine's falling apart too. Mine's going back.
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Summary: Question from a beginner
Review: Is this a book for me if I don't have previos experience with Solaris 8? Does this book provide information including the installtion of solaris8? If not, can anyone recommend me a book for a beginner.
Rating:
Summary: Question from a beginner
Review: Is this a book for me if I don't have previos experience with Solaris 8? Does this book provide information including the installtion of solaris8? If not, can anyone recommend me a book for a beginner.
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