On Fri, 19 May 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:47:09 EDT
> Benjamin Scott said:
>
> > It is a good book, although it is a bit dated, and pretty much
> completely >ignores the free Unixes. :( Sure, it kind of pre-dates
> Linux, the BSDs have >been around a lot longer. For commercial Unix
> systems, though, you'd be hard >pressed to beat it.
>
> Though dated, it does cover all the essential things one really needs
> for Unix sysadmin. I find it's a much better and more comprehensive
> book than Æleen Frisch's book. Whether or not you cover Linux in a
> sysadmin book is, IMO, largely irrelevant. Either you understand the
> basic Unix concepts or you don't. If you don't, variant-specific
> details will be lost on you anyway. If you do, you can easily adapt
> to the specifics of that variant. This book has seen many sysadmin's
> through many a battle on various different platforms. It's gotten me
> through SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX 9 & 10, and Linux. I know it's gotten
> Derek through at least 3 of those as well.
Rather than writing my own post that says all that stuff, I'll just say
that I concur completely. And yeah, same list of OS's for me.
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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