Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration
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| Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael Bartosh, Ryan Faas
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 659603
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 846
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.8
ISBN: 0596006357
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780596006358
Publication Date: May 24, 2005
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 The preface says it all! June 12, 2005
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Michael makes it very clear that he intends to pickup where Apple's "Marketing" manuals left off. I am SO disappointed with Apple's manuals... 1200 pages that are mostly unhelpful. Michael Bartosh should write the Apple manuals!
Michael (unlike Apple) understands that Mac OS X Server is a UNIX server. Every page seems to discuss some CLI tool or command. When he writes about the GUI, he describes which CLI tools are used behind the scenes to get the job done. This is in stark contrast to Apple who offers a SEPARATE manual for CLI!! This is the book I have been waiting for Apple to make. Thanks Michael!
 Overstated claim June 6, 2005
1 out of 49 found this review helpful
If you're already facile in unix, much of this book will seem like an old friend. OS X is a fully fledged unix variant, on a par with those from Sun and IBM. Hence, when the book talks about the filesystem, utilities and command line usage, much of this is standard unix.
The book claims that there is one distinctive feature about OS X. A lot of it is open source linux. So what, you might ask? Isn't all of linux open source? Yes, but the book says that this is the first commercial operating system from a major computer company that is open source. (From the text, I cannot discern if this is just the authors' opinion or if it comes from Apple.)
However, that is overstated. For several years, IBM has been in a massive push to standardise on linux. Two years ago, before Panther came out, you could have used an AIX box that was already heavily linux open source. Maybe Panther is more open source than AIX, but it's scarcely the first commercial operating system to do so.
And need I add that Sun and HP have also migrated large portions of their unixes to open source?
The Definitive OS X Server Book May 28, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Venturing into topics where most books fear to tread, Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration is a must have for anyone who's using Mac OS X Server in their environment. With such a limited amount of books covering the platform, its reassuring to see such an in- depth guide through the various facets of the diverse server system. I highly recommend this book to anyone who uses this platform or is considering it in the future.
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