UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook

Indispensable reference for beginners and gurus alike. Covers everything you need to know about managing Unix systems. Useful and straightforward concepts, procedures and references. Pros: Experienced authors writing about material they've been covering for years. Enormous amount of information, detailed instructions. Cons: BIG! Takes a lot of pages to cover everything. Would love to have some of this material available online

The book was in excellent condition, and the purchase arrived on time. Super handy book with thousands of useful commands.

Hands down the greatest Unix and Linux series (use term to refer to various revisions/editions) ever written. Correction: The greatest technical series every written. Started using back in 2000 after seeing Purple book on coworkers desk. Pulled myself through some complex problems over next consulting jobs. Very detailed discussions, every example has seven plus layers of information beyond what it's primarily demostrating. Awesome start for beginners, incredible nugets for experts. You can read this book from start to finish or you can toss it on a close shelf and use as reference.

This will answer many questions, it's great for both learning and as a troubleshooting reference. If you don't find your answers here, chances are you'll at least be pointed in the right direction.

IMO, this book is, perhaps, the best book on Linux system administration. However, I could do without all the attitude (referring to comments about systemd). I am not connected with systemd or any other aspect of Linux system development. It appears systemd is becoming THE standard. Fine. Just tell me how to use it. I'm not interested in all of the personal attitudes. systemd appears clean and powerful to me. No one dislikes Windows more than I, but their property file layout is clean, powerful, and simple. I have no problem with it. Please just stick to the facts and avoid the personalities.

As previous versions, this is an excellent book that is comprehensive and readable. This edition drops coverage of Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, focusing instead on three Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS) and FreeBSD. As a FreeBSD user, I was thrilled to see the system included in the coverage, however I was disappointed with several glaring omissions. In particular, there is an entire chapter on containers yet the authors failed to even mention the existence of Jails, which could reasonably also have been mentioned in the "Management Of The root Account" section of the Access Controls chapter. There is surprisingly no coverage of the pf firewall, opting instead to cover IPFilter which I'm pretty sure no one uses. I'd even take ipfw, there's a lot of interesting features there. I was also surprised to very minimal coverage of the GEOM system. I was not, however, surprised by the short section of the Virtualization chapter that basically dismisses bhyve, although I use and enjoy bhyve myself. Ultimately, this edition definitely seems less like a UNIX book and more like a pure Linux book. The inclusion of FreeBSD without proper coverage of its features may actually make the system look worse than if it hadn't been included at all, as readers ignorant of the system assume that the omission of coverage implies the lack of a feature. The exclusion of the other UNIXes, while somewhat understandable, only drives the Linux monoculture forward. Oracle may have killed Solaris, but illumos still has a lot to offer the OS space (for instance, via smartOS) and is now the primary (and open-source) SunOS system. That said, the book delivers the quality that it is known for, with up to date information and plenty of meat on the bone. If you're reading reviews on it, you probably already know you want it.

Engaging and practical, with just enough humor to not be annoying. It really is the gold standard, you will learn and understand linux so much better after reading. Not a book for beginners! For people who are already familiar with the command line or develop on linux. It will take your sysadmin skills to that 2nd level where the neckbeards might accept you(probably not).

As a few other people have pointed out, this book has dropped the Unix operating systems from previous editions - but in my opinion they've double downed on the more modern computing concepts for Linux operating systems, namely; Monitoring, Virtualization, Containerization, Configuration Management, Cloud Computing and Continuous Integration. Great overview of the main Linux concepts with good examples for the more popular Linux OS's. This book really is a great resource if you work with Linux computers/servers at any capacity, but a must read for any future system administrators or Linux/DevOps engineers!

This book is bound well, the print is clear, and the paper quality good: it should last well with use. It is a very good general reference for Linux users. It is an updated book with many competent contributors and I recommended it. If you only get one book about Linux you could not go wrong buying this one.

Pro: utile, chiaro dettagliato in molti argomenti. Contro: forse avrei approfondito un poco di più alcuni aspetti (docker, kubernetes). Sintesi: lo ricomprerei.

Very fast delivery; the book arrived in good condition. Content-wise, the book might not be for beginners, but for those who have proficiency in Linux, that book is the bible. It covers not only Linux but adjacent concepts involving Linux, such as virtualization, CI/CD, and cloud. I highly recommend the book and the vendor.

It's great reference. It gives a practical guide to most of the commom problem, Also specific information for popular Linux destro like Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL.

Easily the best tome on the technical and practical aspects of Unix & Linux, and it's up to date if you purchase the latest edition. This book is aimed squarely at admins, developers, managers of Unix-Linux shops and apps. It's not a tutorial; it's a comprehensive study of the Unix-Linux architecture and every facet of that subject. Additionally, the author's have an established sense of humour about their area of expertise, that makes for some interesting reading, to say the least. If you're already an IT Pro or you're a student heading for a career in the business, you'll want this title close by for a long time. And if you're tired of plowing thru search engines and thousands of snips/pages, and the sometimes arcane 'man' pages from your distro, this book is going to give you the organization that you'll retain for a long time. Well worth the high price; it's just so inclusive as to plow many other publications on the same subject, into the ground. And if you're strictly a Linux user, that doesn't matter; this is your reference. You don't always need to read the chapters in sequence. This book is written so each chapter can almost stand on its own as a separate publication based on the material it covers, though the authors are generous in their inclusion of cross-references to other chapters covering related material. Get it before it goes out of print. If the paperback copy is too pricey to fit your budget, don't forget that the Kindle edition at half the price, (for which you don't require a standalone Kindle reader), can also be stored and read on Amazon's web site for convenience and portability, as part of your purchase.