Reviews for Solaris Internals: Core Kernal Components v.1: Architecture and Techniques: Core Kernal Components Vol 1 (Solaris Internals; Architecture and Techniques)

1. Very technical and detail but hard to read and follow.

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, January 12rd, 2001

   The good points of this book are extremely detail and technical, cover 2.5, 2.6 and Solaris 7. This is an ideal book for reference and Unix experts (not me).

   However, this book has a lot of long sentences. Some parts are difficult to understand and some can be easily explained with simple english. One thing slightly annoys me when the authors suddenly mention a pointer name which I cannot find it in previous pages. Actually, they describe the pointer in the next section. This only happens in few places.

   In my humble opinion, they should put a few more diagrams to help the readers.

2. Flicked through it and read 1st chapter so far

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, December 12th, 2000

   This book seems to offer a description of the inner workings of the OS, which is not really available in a concise volume such as this elsewhere. Don't underestimate the level of detail in this book though, I'll perhaps write another more in depth review if/when I finish reading it. In the mean time, it is a fascinating book to dip into and an invaluable refference for a wanna be Sun guru!