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UNIX System Administration: A Beginner's Guide

Format: Paperback
Author: Steven Maxwell
ReleaseDate: 26 July, 2002
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Rating:

I think it is a decent book
Some see it as incomplete but it is book for a BEGINNER not a guru. It is ok book for a beginner system administrator. If you are beginner and need the real UNIX training I would recommend "UNIX essentials" DVD. It is very straight to the subject, it is a real UNIX class. This book makes a good courseware to the DVD. .

Not well written, not tightly edited
Granted, it does cover lots of things, but you would be far better off with the O'Reilly book, "Essential System Administration", by Frisch. I bought this one at a sale for $15 and still think I paid too much for it. Do not rely on the reviewed book for much depth, and certainly do not rely on it without another book or someone to lean on.

Overall a good book, but saw a few small problems...
First, it is written in a easy fashion, no big words here. Hi,

I'm new to Unix and found the book interesting for a few reasons. Second, it covers both Linux and Solaris systems, which was one of the things I needed since we have both in our shop. Finally, it covers things thatt I didn't see in other books such as RDIST. However, I didn't give the book more stars since I found some pretty stupit typos and errors in several places, which lead me to believe the editing process was not as good as it could be! Also, the book cover it much different from what is listed here. Despite these issues, I liked the book.