Solaris 9 for Dummies

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Summary: Very good, comprehensive introduction to Solaris 9
Review: After having looked at all too many different books on Solaris, I had just about given up hope on finding a book that was focused on the user experience, rather than the job of system administration. Then I found "Solaris 9 for Dummies". Written in the typical light, breezy Dummies style this book does a great job of teaching you how to get up to speed and efficient with Solaris 9.

There's also plenty of system administration content, but the author wisely defers to 1000+ page tomes on Solaris administration (and the lots of good administrative material from Sun themselves that we got with our systems) for the nitty-gritty.

This book is good enough that you can hand it to newbies who've just been put in front of a Solaris computer and expect them, within a day or two, to be completely up-to-speed and ready to work!

Recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Good book for Solaris novices
Review: This is a good book for pepple new to Solaris. It covers command line basics, CDE X Windows, Star Office, and some basic GUI (menu)-based system administration and security.

Each topic is well-explained with clear examples, such as setting up secure shell (SSH). There's several tips and solutions for various problems, such as problems configuring name services (DNS).

However, this book is not for in-depth Solaris system administration. Also, if you have UNIX/Linux experience, a lot of the material will be repeative.

Rating:
Summary: good read - up to speed quickly - good place to start
Review: While having some classroom experience with Solaris I would not consider myself experienced with it at all. So with having a big Solaris implementation ahead, I needed a good read on Solaris to get me up to speed & figure out where I was heading. This was a good book to start out with, balanced between someone who would use Solaris on a day to day basis (end user wise) and between someone who would be the sys admin of a Solaris box. It covered many topics lightly, but that is the nature of the book (and the Dummies series). This title was what I was hoping for. Certainly a good book to get you up to speed quickly; and now I have a page of notes to research and get smarter on.