Reviews for Solaris 10: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)

1. Absolute Junk

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2009

   This book is so bad I had to throw it out; I kept forgetting how terrible and unrelated to Solaris 10 it actually is and would pick it up to look up something only to get frustrated again.

2. Way too geeky

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, May 12th, 2009

   I bought this from Amazon last week because I have to learn how to configure some apps on a Solaris 10 box. This book does not help much.
   
   It makes little sense to me, but may be of use to someone heavily into UNIX already. It also does not cover a single page on the Java console that you get and the management console is nothing like the screenshots in the book.
   
   Wasted my money here.

3. Disapointed

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, April 12th, 2009

   I was rather disappointed to find it lacking in Solaris specifics particularly as highlighted by others the specifics of Solaris 10's.
   
   However if you put the name aside and the pretense that it is in anyway a complete reference then what you do have is a rather reader friendly introduction to Solaris that should encourage you to move onto more detail publishing's such as the Sun Certification Study Guides.
   
   Then you could argue that missing out the juicy bits such as zones, service management and debugging then you've really missed out on some of Solaris 10's best features.
   
   Overall good read had the name not promised so much.

4. Waste of Money

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2009

   This book purports to cover Solaris 10, yet one of the significant differences is creating virtual zones. The only mention of zones in the books index or TOC has to do with LAN zoning. Although I haven't compared it, I wouldn't be surprised if it has not been updated since Solaris 8. The title should be change to "The Incomplete Reference Solaris 10" :(

5. Bargepole Alert (if only I could give a negative number of stars )

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2008

   Perhaps that'd be a black hole!
   
   
   Don't touch it, not even with a bargepole.
   
   This book is _awful_ . It has nothing useful. It has errors, inconsistencies, and introduces concepts without explaining them .
   
   As an example, talking of device named, the author says how useful they are, and that you can get lots of info about the device from them , then gives an example, which he explains incompletely.
   
   Then there's permissions, which he just gets wrong! How can you get something so basic wrong?
   
   Awful, awful, awful. Clearly rushed out to be "first in the marketplace". As others have said, contains nothing about Solaris 10.
   
   DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. I could go on and on.