Rating: 
Summary: Lack of detail but not too bad
Review: Like the author said, this book might be revised. Lack of detail, only focus on "how-to-do" something without sufficient explanation on "why" or "what". For example: the book explains how to boot with the Kernel Debugger, but do not explain why or when it is needed, or what the Kernel Debugger is. My exact rating for this book is 2.8. Also, lack of conceptual explanation on Solaris architecture and components.
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Summary: A little surprised by all the slams on this book.
Review: Looking at the newsgroups and amazon reviews on this book and previous editions, I don't think the low ratings are well deserved. For the most part, I think everyone is bent on passing their certification scams, uh exams. This book isn't meant for that. I have used mainly the first edition to learn how to use Solaris for the first time and I felt it did a pretty good job. At the same time, Solaris is too massive to put in one book anyway, if you want more detail, buy more books.
Rating: 
Summary: Okay but not great
Review: The author has commented that "I am the author of this book and would like to point out that the reviews shown on this page are NOT for the Solaris System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition, which was released in December 2000."Sadly, my review IS for the 3rd Edition, which I have open on my desk. After reading 30 pages (heavily marked up in red pen representing copious errors I noticed on first glance), I deliberately looked the book up on Amazon to see if it was going to get any better. Judging from the other reviews, I assume that it probably won't. I was startled to read on page 3 that it makes no attempt to cover Solaris installation, network administration, mail administration, hardware installation, security administration, or performance monitoring -- pretty basic tasks for ANY system administrator! Nonetheless, it remains a basically useful guide to Solaris 8. I come from a FreeBSD background, and the book has been handy already in pointing out fundamental differences between the Unices and directing my study. I'll probably buy additional Solaris 8 references to supplement this book, but will try different authors/publishers in the future. I don't regret buying this book because of its low price, but I guess I got what I paid for.
Rating:
Summary: Okay but not great
Review: The author has commented that "I am the author of this book and would like to point out that the reviews shown on this page are NOT for the Solaris System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition, which was released in December 2000." Sadly, my review IS for the 3rd Edition, which I have open on my desk. After reading 30 pages (heavily marked up in red pen representing copious errors I noticed on first glance), I deliberately looked the book up on Amazon to see if it was going to get any better. Judging from the other reviews, I assume that it probably won't. I was startled to read on page 3 that it makes no attempt to cover Solaris installation, network administration, mail administration, hardware installation, security administration, or performance monitoring -- pretty basic tasks for ANY system administrator! Nonetheless, it remains a basically useful guide to Solaris 8. I come from a FreeBSD background, and the book has been handy already in pointing out fundamental differences between the Unices and directing my study. I'll probably buy additional Solaris 8 references to supplement this book, but will try different authors/publishers in the future. I don't regret buying this book because of its low price, but I guess I got what I paid for.
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Summary: review of the condition of the book upon receipt
Review: the book is in excellent condition and kudos to the sellers and shippers galleonport inc.
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Summary: Way too simple
Review: The majority of the information in this book is pretty basic and is already covered in any basic UNIX text. Anyone who doesn't know most of what is in the first half of the book has no business having root access to begin with. Seriously, if you don't know how to use cp, ls or man commands (all discussed in the book) you aren't ready to be a UNIX sysadmin. The bottom line is that if you have been a sysadmin for more than two months this book isn't much use. I guess all the good stuff is discussed in the *advanced* system administrators guide but I was so disappointed in this book that I won't bother getting it.
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Summary: man page reprints
Review: There was absolutely nothing in this book that I did not already know by heart and little that couldn't be discovered by reading a few man pages.
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Summary: A very bad book
Review: This book is poorly written, it contains too much unnecessary info and very little coverage of concepts. No depth in the chapters.Even the commands are not properly covered. I regret buying this book and I am looking for other books
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Summary: Lack of in-depth explanation
Review: This book is too brief, only explain how-to things. The book will not teach you why you need to do a certain thing. Many copy-paste and typos.....!!!
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