This book certainly contains a lot of information. Nobody can question that the author is informed. For me, this book fell short of the mark because the good info was often buried in needless chatter.I've worked as a Solaris Admin for many years and I've read a LOT of Solaris books. This book isn't the worst book ever written. But it falls into a general pattern that is common for books of this type.
First off, this book is meant to be a guide for Beginning Sys. Admins. The same author already has a Solaris reference book. That's why it pains me that this book contains so much "reference-like" filler. Do we really need another book rehashing the origins of Unix? Couldn't they cram that stuff into an appendix and list some more pertinent background info? But I guess the publisher decides this book must contain X number of pages and the author just cuts and pastes from his other texts.
There was also excessive redundancy in this book. The same run-level chart that appears in the first secion reappears in the third.
The writing style is wordy and unpractical. I too got my start in Unix in a university lab, but System Administration is about doing a lot in a short amount of time. Could you please get to your point without all of the prose?
And hidden in those long paragraphs were great links and commands. But this book wasn't well structured to have those things stand out. Instead, only somebody who has a LOT of time to read every single word can truly garner all the information in this book.
A lot of people clearly like to read wordy academic style unix books. Perhaps it's only the books title that's a problem. Still I think the book could have at least been laid out a lot better. I also would have thought it better if it had shorter more clearly focused sections that actually had to do with administration.
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