Product: UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook

This book gives a good and comprehensive overview of the Unix systems and systems management, but if you only need to manage one or a few Linux computers e.g. for scientific computing then a lot of the material is not relevant, like networking, mail etc. The book covers several flavors of Unix, including Linux, Solaris, AIX etc so if you only need Linux there is also some material you don’t need, but of course if you have several different systems that would be pretty useful. The book is well written, in a conversational style and easy to follow, and gives a good overview. It is not that good as a reference source, say if you need to do a specific task or figure our the options to the mount command, or the correct syntax for awk, for example. All in all, it is a good book, but I think I will need another Linux reference book with a little more detail in some areas.
Rating: 4
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