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OpenSolaris Bible (Bible (Wiley))

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This book is written so well that the knowledge simply jumps from the pages and into your brain (well, at least for me). The breadth and detail of this book totally justifies its size. There is no "filler" here.The icon message inserts (NOTE, TIP, CAUTION, CROSS-REF) are extremely informative and helpful.

As an added bonus, many of the topics presented in this book also apply to Solaris 10 (but definitely NOT package management). As an experienced Sun/Solaris system administrator, I fully recommend the "OpenSolaris Bible" to any admin or developer interested in OpenSolaris or Solaris 10.

I thank the authors for writing such a marvelous book..

The OpenSolaris Bible is an excellent resource, beyond excellent. It caters to all levels, from "beginner to advanced", just as it says on the (back) cover. Few books are as versatile. You can pick this up, having no or only limited knowledge of Unix systems, you can be an expert with another Unix flavor, or you might even be a Solaris administrator looking to become aquainted with some of the newer features.

I'm not new to Unix-type operating systems, I've been working on Unix systems for over 13 years. I am an expert with Linux, proficient with *BSD systems, and have varied experience with Irix and HPUX, but have rarely had the chance to work on Solaris. With all of the wonderful features introduced with OpenSolaris in the past couple years, I've taken another look at this great operating system and have used the OpenSolaris Bible as my guide.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking to run or administrate OpenSolaris, and I would certainly recommend OpenSolaris itself.

My only complaint might be that this book will probably become outdated very quickly, due to the impressive rate at which OpenSolaris is being developed. In fact, just yesterday, a new version of OpenSolaris was released, introducing features not present or discussed in this book. However, this is currently the most updated printed material available today, so you really can't go wrong.

I'm writing this as a long time Solaris user, and I've dabbled a bit with OpenSolaris OS and SXCE as well.

I must say that I was impressed. The coverage is very extensive, and to a good depth. All of the major topics get covered: ZFS, DTrace, zones, xVM, SMF.

oracle/sun charges $1800.00 for their instructor led course 'Getting Started With OpenSolaris'.
This book covers everything and more than that course! And it gets better.. it is explained really well.
5/5 from me.good job Miner and co.

Is incredible but this book is a better Solaris and OpenSolaris guide that the SUN's books, I recommend it like a reference book.

The book not only talk about desktop operations, it also talks about operating system internals, as well as many other topics really useful for a system administrator of FreeBSD and Linux environments that is beginning in this magnificent operating system.

I totally agree with Dan, this is a great book that can be applied not only to Open Solaris but Solaris 10 as well. I have been working with Solaris systems as a System administrator for over 10 years and this is one of the best books I have read. The information is very much in depth yet very easy to read, I have a hard time sticking to one chapter because I want to jump around to the others as well. Everthing you need to know about Solaris 10 is pretty much right here. From file system management to ZFS, this book has it all. Highly recommended.