Books: A User's Report
Elizabeth Zinkann
Information and expertise regarding the many flavors, tools,
hardware implementations, and introductions to UNIX remain
constantly in demand. Some of the newly released sources of this
information include a Solaris reference, a shell toolkit within a
book, a beginning server hardware book, and a superb introduction
to UNIX. Specifically, this column includes reviews of: Solaris
Essential Reference by John P. Mulligan (New Riders
Publishing); UNIX Shell Programming Tools by David Medinets
(McGraw-Hill); Building A Pentium Server by Nate
Vanderschaaf (Abacus Software, Inc.); and UNIX Visual Quickstart
Guide by Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray (Peachpit Press).
Solaris Essential Reference
By John P. Mulligan
New Riders Publishing
ISBN 0-7357-0023-0
267 Pages
$24.95
http://www.newriders.com/
Systems administrators rarely support a single type of operating
system platform. Today's environments integrate UNIX/Linux,
Windows NT, Macintosh, NetWare, and Windows 95/98 systems. The UNIX
and Linux category may be further divided among UNIX variants, such
as Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, and Linux distributions including SuSE,
Red Hat, Caldera, Slackware, and Debian. The administrator knows
what tasks he needs to accomplish, but the specific commands for an
individual system may temporarily elude him. (This frustrating
experience is similar to trying to start your car with your house
key. It works, but not where you are.) To alleviate some of the
confusion, trial and error, and time-consuming delays connected
with these situations, John Mulligan has written the Solaris
Essential Reference.
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