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Solaris 9: The Complete Reference

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I'm working with the Solaris 9 beta right now. This book has wide coverage of all the usual UNIX topics - devices, processes, shell, programming - as well as the Solaris-specific topics - NIS+, volume management, role-based access control. THANK YOU for including a chapter on LDAP - this will entirely change our network structure. My favorite chapter was advanced security - but Trusted Solaris should have had its own chapter. I have version 8 of this book and this edition is a vast improvement on the last one.

But when will Sun release Solaris 9/x86? That's my biggest problem right now.

I bought the Solaris 8 version of this book. It was OK but did not contain sufficient material on the new technologies. I ordered the Solaris 9 version of the book because it's the only Solaris 9 book around. I am happy to report that this book covers new technologies like RBAC, LDAP and the resource manager. These are so much more important for the enterprise than GNOME. Strong emphasis on disks - format, partition, volume management, backups - is good and logically ordered. The only thing I would like to see is more coverage on application servers, databases, message queues and other uses of Solaris in large firms. But that's probably an architecture book with a different focus.

I'm not sure what books the other reviewer has been looking at, but there are a lot of differences between the certification book and the reference book. There is some overlap between the two because some of the topics are the same for the exam and for everyday use. But the reference book contains lots of reference infos but the certification book contains exams, reviews, test questions etc. I have both books and I use them differently. Keep up the great work Dr. Watters!

I would say that this book is really good if you had your hands dirty with Solaris 8. Gives you detailed knowledge about Solaris Administration. Have fun ! Cheers
Manish Gaur

I manage several hundred UNIX and Linux servers in Europe for a banque. This book is the best I have read about Solaris specifically for a very long time. It provides many worked examples and clear, well-written English. This is very important for second language English speakers like me. Please keep up the great work and look forward to "Solaris 10".

I wonder why someone would buy the Solaris 8 version of this book, write a complaint, and then buy the Solaris 9 version of the book, and write another complaint? quitspam's review is full of incorrect information and seems malicious in intent. The Solaris 9 beta has been out for over a year. Book has plenty of coverage of volume management in the book and partitioning. Projects for user accounts (let me guess, quitspam still enables "finger"..., no security there)?? Plenty of material on printing (too much I'd reckon). Significant coverage of JumpStart. I'd encourage other readers to judge the book for themselves by checking out the table of contents.

quitspam, quit while you are ahead because you have no credibility.

I bought this book to learn about Solaris 9, not Solaris 7. Another example of a book that was too quick to ship. How can a book be published in April 3 when the OS is released in late June? Here are the reasons I returned mine and suggest to the publisher (author) that they go back to the drawing board and do their homework:
Incomplete coverage of the Solaris Management Console- instead it covers the (soon to be) obsolete Admintool for setting up users, printers, loading software. Sun says to start migrating from Admintool in their Solaris 9 release notes. Nothing on soft partioning, and worse yet, no covereage of how to use Solaris Volume Manager. Nothing on Projects when setting up user accounts. Nothing on the SMC process tool. Nothing on how to use SMC to manage disks and file systems. Nothing on Print Manager. One page on Jumpstart- should be a whole chapter. I'm running out of space but, you get the point.

The contents of this book is basically the same as 'Sun Certified Solaris 9.0 System and Network Administrator' (All-in-One) from the same author. Buy only 1 of either.

Product arrived in warp time and in outstanding condition!

solaris 9 is not being ported to x86, intel hardware is EOL'ed.