dvdweyer writes "This book deals with administration of UNIX
(one wonders why the book doesn't bear the title "Essential UNIX
Administration"), all major UNIX platforms are covered, most of them in their
almost latest version when the book went to press (Linux: Red Hat 7.3 and SuSE
8.0, Solaris 8 and 9, FreeBSD 4.6, AIX 5, HP-UX 11/11i, Tru64 5.1), SCO and
IRIX were dropped for this edition, FreeBSD was added. Other UNIXes (e.g. Debian
Linux) are not mentioned, but this makes the book only a little bit less useful
on those, with some imagination the information can be used, except for special
topics (e.g. package management). This book is on system administration and not
targeted on desktop users, as such it doesn't cover KDE, Gnome or any desktop
application." Dvddwyer's section-by-section review continues below.