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Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks |
Author: Brian Jepson
Published: 2005-06-01 |
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 Tame the Striped Cat via Unix
There are many Tigers left in this Leopard world, and you'll want this book if you're going to tame the big striped cat via Unix. Especially valuable for Unix developers and administrators that are new to the Mac OS, "Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks" illuminates Apple's unique approach to Unix and provides a jump-start into using the Mac OS's GUI and command-line tools. Authors Brian Jepson and Ernest E. Rothman lift the hood and point out the function of Tiger's major parts: the startup process, the filesystem, directory services, and the tools to use when configuring these parts. They proceed to detail Tiger's application development framwework, comparing and contrasting it with traditional Unix frameworks. The book finishes with an overview of Tiger as a server OS, replete with notes on major server technologies: administration tools, and databases and scripting languages. Jepson and Rothman share so much knowledge, you'll think they're developers for Apple!
 Excellent book for the Mac Geek
I was a bit worried that the book would be more for beginners, but have been pleasantly surprised. I have been scripting on Linux and Unix machines for years and this is a great book for those who like working under the hood.
An advanced index to Tiger Unix
This book isn't for the average geek - if you're a geek but not a UNIX geek then don't buy this book. Even if you are a Unix geek the book is of potentially less value than you might expect... so let me adjust your expectations a bit.
Short and simple: it isn't a "Tiger Unix Bible". The majority of topics are just touched on or in many cases merely mentioned.
It also isn't a detailed coverage of Unix topics specific to Tiger. Apple has quite a few technologies of their own that they have woven into this flavor of UNIX. One might think that the book would cover at least those in depth. Nope. Even 10.4 specific topics that would be new to a 10.3 geek are typically "mentioned in depth". Assuming knowledge of Unix is one thing - but this book seems bent on assuming knowledge of the very topics it intends to introduce. That's probably just a fancy way of saying it covers a lot of geeky topics rather lightly.
If you're a true Unix geek you know how to deceipher man pages, hit all the usual blogs and find the information that's missing. And it's a lot easier to do if you know what the topics, commands and keywords are that you need to look at. For pointing me in the right direction I've found this book useful. Just don't expect more.
Excellent
Excellent. Very helpful. And even if you are a real geek who prefers to look up the man pages, or consult mailing list archives, you shouldn't dismiss this book too quickly. It covers the basics and goes on to less obvious matters. No matter how expert you already are, the chance is high that you shall find a great deal of useful material here.
very nice OS X UNIX book
OS X UNIX is amazingly friendly and accessible. Some people who had never used it before type commands and work with the operating system directly as a "cool guys" in movies! This book is very helpful and well written and it is serves as a very nice reference. I paired this book with that "UNIX Essentials" DVD I found here on Amazon and it is complete UNIX course recorded and this book and a video they contribute one another greatly. The book is very particular about the subjects that related to OS X and because there are some differences between OS X and other UNIXes it is nice to have a book that deals with it.
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