> 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]
I ordered (and have received) three copies, two from Amazon.com and the third from Barns and Noble in the Ala Moana Mall. I saw the latter also places a copy of the OpenSolaris Bible on its self. This is one of the busiest bookstores in the world. If a certain CEO/CIO decides to switch to Solaris because s/he happens to browse this book while vacationing in Hawaii, this will be the best forty bucks I have ever spent. :-) But seriously, coming from Linux background, I am a fan of the Wiley's Bible serious of Linux books. All things considered, I think this is the best among all the Wiley's Bible series of books. Of course, different authors will cover a technology from different angles, and we definitely hope that there will be more OpenSolaris books to come, and that OpenSolaris will be popular enough so that there will be enough buyers to please the publishers. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
