Solaris 10 : The Complete Reference (Complete Reference Series)

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Summary: Best Complete Reference of Solaris 10.
Review: I bought the book to see the new enhancements of the new release by sun. I wasn't disapointed at all, this books starts at the introductory level(biginers) and goes up to advance routing,NIS/NIS+ and interconection of windows boxes in a Solaris enviroment. I recomend this book to any solaris admin that would like to jump in the new features of Solaris 10. Believe me you won't be disapointed if you get this book.

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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: Solaris 10 represents a significant upgrade over earlier releases of this operating system and yet this book, as mentioned by another reviewer, is basically just a rehash of earlier editions with only a cursory discussion of the new commands and features scattered throughout the text. Even the existing information seems dated. Why mention the "Netscape mail client" from www.netscape.com? Solaris 10 provides Sendmail 8.13, not simply "version 8". How about some discussion of Sun's Patch Manager? I find it odd that "Iomega Zip and Jaz" drives are discussed but there is no mention of USB sticks or other USB devices which work on Solaris. In fact, much of the storage device section is out-of-date (A1000 disk arrays and DAT tape drives). Why are tar/cpio described, but not the more versatile pax command? This "Complete Reference" also doesn't have any mention of the very useful "mount -o public" command.

All in all not a reference I'd want to rely upon although it has some use as a general Solaris guide if you don't have easy access to the Internet.

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Summary: Not really a Solaris 10 book
Review: The author does not cover the new features of Solaris 10. He mentions zones in passing, never mentions DTrace, and his information on configuring services using inetd.conf is outdated (no mention anywhere of Service Manager and using it to enable/disable services).

This is a Solaris 9 book with a couple of paragraphs added. A complete disappointment.