Greg Palmer <[email protected]> writes: [...]
>> 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). >> [...] > . . . . . . . . . . There are thousands and thousands of pages of > documentation that cover the information in the OpenSolaris bible in > greater detail already. There are thousands upon thousands of posts The problem with that line of reasoning is that there are 1000s of pages written elsewhere that cover every thing in that book. In fact much of it is a re-write directly out of Documentation available at one or another Solaris site. We buy books so we dont have to go find it all... and more convenient for use on the `throne' if you dont have a laptop. ;) So the argument applies equally well to expecting to find the details of a peculiarly solaris kind of disk slicing and dicing. The details you needed with grub happened to be there. Which also runs counter to your `getting the higher level stuff from the book´ argument. How many citations in this group alone do you suppose there are that mention `installgrub'?... without looking I´d guess, at least 200. By your own reasoning, you should have gone elsewhere for the details. Let me just make sure I´m not beating up on the book too bad. I was disappointed not to find the details I needed but not to the point of raising hell for days about it. I say again... the book is not junk, and probably worth the price.. but is not a `Bible´ . At least not like some of the O´Rellly books have been. And just leave it at that. I was very pleased to see the actual Authors responding here to comments about the book. That kind of relationship alone is worth the price. ps - I meant to mention that I think you should offer your dog to the producers and put him on the QA line, where the books come out.. hehe. Until they can pass the `two lick wrinkle´ test they get ixneyed. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
