Sun Solaris Bookstore
The following is my selection of the best books I've found on Solaris
for each topic.
The "Sol" symbol,
,
next to a book indicates it's especially well-written and highly
recommended by me.
If you have any suggestions or see a subject missing,
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Dan Anderson.
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A Practical Guide to Solaris
(2003)
by David Taylor
This is the best book for people new to Solaris. It covers command line basics, CDE and GNOME X Windows GUIs, Star Office, and some basic GUI-based system administration and security. Each topic is well-explained with clear examples, such as setting up secure shell (ssh). There's several tips and solutions for various problems, such as configuring name services (DNS). This book is not for those already experineced in Solaris (or UNIX or Linux) and is not for in-depth Solaris system administration.
A Practical Guide to Solaris
(1999)
by Mark Sobell
This book is a gives a good user-level introduction to Solaris. This book is geared for people who want to learn how to use Solaris. It covers a lot of material without getting too heavily until system administration details. Topics covered include Unix commands, CDE and X windows, Internet utilities, editors, shells, programming tools, and basic system administration.
Special Edition Using StarOffice
(1999)
This is a comprehensive guide to all the applications in the StarOffice suite, including graphics, word processing, presentations, and spread sheets. If you use StarOffice, get it and save some time. [cover]
Solaris for Managers and Administrators
,
3d ed.
(2000)
by Freeland, McKay, & Parkinson.
This book is our bestseller.
It is an excellent Solaris-specific book on System Administration,
it's gives a lot of practical information without being too technical.
Detailed explanations on about everything a sys admin needs
(well, as reasonably possible :-)
Covers users, filesystems, modems, backup, NFS/NIS/DNS networking.
Unix System Administration Handbook,
3d ed.
(2000)
by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, & Hein
This book by far is the best book for Unix system administration in general. I would prefer it over Solaris-specific books just because it is chock-full of real-life sys admin solutions and written by an excellent team of top-notch system administrators.
Solaris 8 Network Administrator Certification
(2002)
by Rafeeq Rehman
This book has a narrow focus—passing the Network Admin. exam.
If that's what you need, I recommend this book.
Covered are TCP/IP protocol concepts, client-server ports and sockets, routing, DHCP, SNMP, DNS, and IPv6.
The book has lots of examples and output, which are well-explained. At the end of the book are summary and prep tips, a sample exam, and answers.
The following books from Sun cover Solaris for Sparc and x86.
I find they cover the subject matter too lightly,
so I don't recommend them.
Only the uninformed seem to buy them.
They seem to be popular though, perhaps because they're published by SunSoft.
They are best for beginners, although I recommend
Sobell's book for the beginner user or
Freeland, McKay & Parkinson's book for the
intermediate user (or beginning sysadmin)
over these.
Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet
(1998)
by Cockcroft & Pettit, Sun Microsystems
No Intel-specific information,
but this is the best Solaris or UNIX book on performance measurement
and tuning I've seen.
The book is well illustrated and has specific examples on several
monitoring utilities.
Also covers TCP/IP networking.
Configuration and Capacity Planning for Solaris Servers
(1997)
by Wong
Excellent book for sizing Solaris Servers.
Has detailed examples and tips for NFS, DBMS, & Internet servers,
Timeshare systems; chapgers on storage, system architecture, and benchmarks.
Book is becomming dated for latest Sun hardware, but concepts still apply.
May be a little too technical for beginners.
Solaris Implementation: A Guide for System Administrators
(1995)
by Becker, Morris, & Slattery
Covers installing, networking, patches. Good, concise book for Solaris systems administration, written by sysadmins at Sun with real-world experience. [cover]
Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Components
(2000)
by Mauro & McDougall
Detailed, yet very readable book on Solaris.
Useful for all who want to understand Solaris better,
and who want to exploit its features.
Chapters on processes, threads, scheduling,
memory management, files, I/O, kernel services, interrupts, scheduling,
IPC, and kernel tunables.
Sams Teach Yourself GNOME in 24 Hours
(2000)
Gnome is Solaris' new, upcoming graphical desktop environment that will
CDE and OpenLook.
Give yourself a head-start and learn this new powerful, flexible, modern
desktop and tools.
Configuring CDE: Common Desktop Environment
(1996)
CDE is UNIX's graphical desktop environment, which, though graphical,
is not always easy to customize.
This book goes into much-needed detail on how to set up CDE to work for you.
It goes into more detail than the official CDE
User's Guide ("orange" book)
or
Administrator's Guide ("green" book)
books
Solaris Guide for Windows NT Administrators
(1999)
by Tom Bialaski
This book is geared for Windows NT or 2000
Administrators who want to learn Solaris.
It shows for various NT tasks, the equivalent steps for Solaris,
and tips on integrating
file, print, email, and web services.
Windows NT & Unix Integration Guide
(1997)
by Gunter & Burnett
A good book on meshing Unix and Windows NT--a non-trivial task given
Windows' proprietary environment.
Focuses on getting communication protocols (SNMP, Samba, e-mail),
Database, and applications working in a mixed environment.
My only problem with this book is it the authors worked too hard on
quantity (bulk) over quality by covering additional topics seemingly
to increase the page count, but the gems in the book are still worth it.
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