UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook 5th Edition

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.

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.

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).

I purchased the Kindle edition of this book. I am reading it on a 9.7 inch (full size) iPad with the Kindle reader and it's very readable in this format! Like some of the other reviewers I also own earlier revisions of this book. I've never read one of them cover-to-cover, but when I need to understand a topic quickly these guys never disappoint! I test software running on Linux systems and as such I'm NOT a Linux system admin but I have root access to everything, so I need to understand a lot of UNIX and Linux system admin concepts. That's where this book helps me.and helps me to stay up to date.

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

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.

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.

Up to date (at least as of 3/18), really comprehensive and very well written. The text is engaging and humorous. A great contrast from those usually bone-dry technical manuals. The authors have a point of view they share about certain technologies and it's refreshing to hear that. It really digs deep into the technical details. It's not a breezy high level view of any of the topics it covers, though that's probably obvious given its page count. It might be the best technical book I've ever owned.