Harry, thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback. A couple of
comments in-line below.
Harry Putnam wrote:
Emmanuel De Paepe
<[email protected]> writes:
Idem over here.
I paid it only 28.5 Euro, which is an excellent price if you see the '50 US
dollar' on the back of the cover.
The only issue is the quality of the book. I was surprised that Wiley uses such
low quality phone book paper. This is a big contrast compared to all my other
Wiley (semiconductor) technical books.
I too see poor quality in paper... and apparently the printing too.
It appears the printer was low on ink. Nothing is really crisp.
As authors, we had no control over the printing process or paper
quality; it seems to be similar to the other titles in the "Bible"
series that I have samples of, so I'd say it's consistent, anyway. We
can bring it up with Wiley for future printings, I guess, though I'm
doubtful it would make any difference. In their defense, we did deliver
a bit more material than was originally specified, but they bent over
backwards to put it all in.
Regarding the contents, I certainly can recommend this book. It's easy to read
and I was surprised to see the number of commands I have never heard of.
Commands which are otherwise well hidden in the man pages.
I am beginning to disagree about contents too. I'm way low on the
skill level in unix or Solaris but have run unix or unix like OS for
over 10 yrs, mostly linux but with several months experience with 2 of
the BSDs (open and free) and at least 2 mnths with early offerings
from solaris... somwhere around 200[03]. As I recall you paid
something like $40 for a DVD with a x86 Solaris OS, the OS was free
but the processing cost (It may have been less, but $40 sticks in my
mind).
I see what could be described as a `thin' coverage of many things.
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We appreciate the feedback on topics you think deserve deeper coverage.
The scope of the book is very broad, and that breadth definitely
compromises depth. I would think that in every subject area we could
have gone much deeper; the resources section provided with each chapter
is really designed to direct you to materials, such as the Sun product
documentation, that offer greater depth. Ultimately, I expect the book
to be more satisfying to those who are new(er) to OpenSolaris, not users
or administrators with long Solaris experience, though I think it can
serve as a handy reference to the latter for parts of the system that
they are less frequently in contact with.
Specifically in the case of partitioning, I think we chose not to
emphasize this as strongly, as ZFS makes it a far less interesting topic
in general; you really want to just be giving it whole disks and making
your life simpler. Perhaps that's being a little too optimistic about
ZFS for some :-)
We'll archive your feedback, as well as any others offered, for
consideration should there be a second edition. Feel free to drop any
of us a note, or post here, with further thoughts on what would make a
better book for you.
Dave
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