Customer Review: This book covers in a excelent way all the process for creating device drivers. Its very good for who wants to start to programming and for who already knows how to programming.
Customer Review: For me, the greatness of this book resides in the cross platform explanations of how various system tasks differ from one OS architecture to another. Beyond BSD vs. SysV, I find the deeper I go the more different they all become. This book really helps cut through the confusion.
Customer Review: I have been a Unix Systems Administrator for ten years but am weak in creating my own Unix shell scripts. I currently administer hundreds of enterprise class Unix servers with AIX, Solaris and RHEL for a major corporation. I bought this book to help me understand scripting more and to help me learn... more info
Customer Review: As a sysadmin and avid Python user I was looking forward to all the cool tricks/hacks I'd pick up from this book. Once I got it, I was a bit disappointed. The title should be "Learning Python for System Admins". It's very much an into to Python itself, and not anything close to a "cookbook" I was... more info
Customer Review: Excellent Linux book! Gives step by step answers to common Linux problems in a "Problem - solution" style way. I'm a tad disappointed in the SAMBA section, but that really is a topic deserving of a book of its own.
Customer Review: Excellent Book. Who said an old dog can't learn new tricks. Found several little tid-bits that have trimmed a number of my scripts or changed the way I've implemented services! A great desktop companion for advanced and intermediate admins.
Customer Review: Anyone who has been concerned or is currently concerned with the performance of networks, no matter how large, has had to deal with the TCP/IP protocol. It has its origins in the late 1960's, being invented essentially by government researchers and finally finding its first specification in 1979.... more info
Customer Review: This book is just what I was looking for. Excellent Security Guide to day to day security issues at my workplace. Information about TPC and UDP ports and their security risks have been very useful. This book must be part of every UNIX System Security Profesional.
Customer Review: This book is outstanding. Most books on Unix Administration start from the beginning, the beauty of this one is that it doesn't. This is a more advanced book designed for veteran administrators, or administrators looking for a move be junior administrator status to senior admin. Bauer talks... more info
