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Summary: This book is a joek
Review: I bought this book a couple of years ago, needing to get up to speed on AIX. I've never touched it since, it's mostly filled with screenshots of smit screens - and very little info.If you really want to learn AIX, get general unix admin with AIX specific's from O'Reily's SysAdmin book, and fill in the rest with the free and excellent pdf's from IBM. (redbooks.ibm.com) Do NOT buy this book
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Summary: General/High level detail. NOT for existing AIX users...
Review: I bought this book in hopes that it would provide a detailed reference for doing most any type of system admin. I also hoped that it too showed a comparison between AIX and other flavors like BSD and SVR4. It did at some levels, but fell short. It presented some history on AIX and also covered some hardware changes over the years. Since I am already very familiar with other UNIX's, I had hoped this would be a reference/command guide, but it was not. It has you depend heavily on the info and man pages for usage. I felt the book did not cover enough detail overall and was very weak in covering kernel config/tuning. There must be better out there...
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Summary: Too Much Reliance on SMIT
Review: I know that SMIT is 'the thing', but in my opinion, this, as well as other books on AIX should concentrate first on making sure that people can do without SMIT if they have to. You never know when it will assemble a command erroneously, or it might be down.
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Summary: Too Much Reliance on SMIT
Review: I know that SMIT is 'the thing', but in my opinion, this, as well as other books on AIX should concentrate first on making sure that people can do without SMIT if they have to. You never know when it will assemble a command erroneously, or it might be down.
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Summary: One of the WORST books I've ever read.
Review: I made the mistake of purchasing this book at a local book store as I needed an AIX book that day and they only had 2 books. This book looked to be more useful than the other book but as soon as I started reading it I found out how bad it was. Much of this book is woefully antiquated and unfortunately much of it has AIX version 3 information instead of 4. I read the book from cover to cover as I needed to get as much AIX knowledge as I could that day and I can tell you that I learned about 4 things from the book that would be useful. The rest of the book had information that has little to no bearing on administering a system or applies to a version 3 system and not AIX 4.X. Please DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK AS YOU WILL BE VERY DISAPPOINTED IN IT!
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Summary: Eh...
Review: This book is just plain bad. I haven't been able to find any redeeming item inside. I hope somebody reads these reviews and decides not to buy this book. Maybe that would be the redeeming effort I'm looking for. Usually I can mine a few nuggets out of a bad or marginal book but this one takes the cake. Please save your money, and send a message to the publisher they will listen to. This book should've been caught somewhere in quality control and never made it to the printing presses.
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