Solaris 10 The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)

I've used several of these books in the past (LINUX, VB.NET, and others) and all have been well written covering basic concepts as well as advanced concepts. I've always found the books to be well worth their cost. While this book won't make you a top-notch admin, it will provide a desktop reference for those learning

This book was very disappointing. Although it seems to be complete for Solaris 9, I was not able to find information about smf, inetconv and other new features of Solaris 10. I would not recommend it for Solaris 10 users or administrators.

If you have "Solaris 9: the complete reference" this book ismostly a photocopy of that book. Save your money and go overto sun's web site and download their solaris 10 information forfree. There are so many things wrong with this book it's hardto find a starting point. Here's one good example: Solaris 10introduces a completely new administration tool for administeringinetd. This book is a reprint of the old methods from Solaris2.6/7/8/9. It's completely worthless. If I could give it anegative rating I would. Also, contacted mcgraw hill supportand (no surprise here) got no reply at all. AVOID.

The big change with Solaris 10 is that it is now a free operating system. Originally developed by Sun for their own systems, Solaris was originally based on the AT&T System V and the Berkeley BSD. This is not a Linux, this is a fullfledged Unix, directly traceable to the AT&T source code.Needless to say, since Sun developed Java in the first place, the integration of Java into the operating system is better than with any other.This book, as you just might guess from the title, covers System 10 completely from installation to using the various application packages that come with it.

This book is an excellent guide to using Solaris 10 in production environments. I work for Bank of China in Shanghai and all of our system admins use this book every day. All of the topics are very clearly explained in simple, no-nonsense way - easy for us to understand everything. Especially RBAC words are good.

This is a regurgitated copy of his Solaris 9 book... It goes into no detail whatsoever on the new Solaris 10 features... ZFS, SMF, Partitioning, etc... Newcomers to solaris who read this book would have no idea about milestones, smf, etc, and would assume Solaris 10 still uses just the RC scripts to boot.From the binding: "Includes FULL DETAILS on all the new features"... this is completely FALSE!I'm thoroughly disappointed with this book, especially considering the author's previous releases...

I would give this book 5 stars because it is the only book which has consistently covered Solaris throughout its previous releases. This book gives a very sold introduction to all of the Solaris core topics like networking, security (VERY EXTENSIVE COVERAGE), process models and so forth. It avoids the current marketing hype over Sun's "pretend" grid technology (the Solaris "grid" is NOT the same as Globus). Keep up the good work to the author I say.

Seems I forgot to read the reviews for this book before buying - a faux pas I don't usually do. I originally bought the book to learn up on ZFS and basic new features with S10, and nothing I was looking for was actually in the book. What a lame excuse for a 'Complete Reference' book on Solaris.

I bought this from Amazon last week because I have to learn how to configure some apps on a Solaris 10 box. This book does not help much.It makes little sense to me, but may be of use to someone heavily into UNIX already. It also does not cover a single page on the Java console that you get and the management console is nothing like the screenshots in the book.Wasted my money here.

When you need a reference book, like I did this is the one you need. Worth it price. Only the cover is slightly curled up.

Das Buch ist unstrukturiert und geht nicht auf die Neuerung von Solaris 10 ein. Besser zu einem anderen Buch greifen.