UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook

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.

El mejor libro de administración de sistemas tipo Unix que existe...

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

I am a big fan of this book and I have all 5 editions of it.The book covers RHEL 7.1, Ubuntu 17.04, Debian 9.0 and FreeBSD 11.0.Ironically, the book has retained the "UNIX" word in the title, however all true Unix systems have been dropped (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX). Strictly speaking, there are no Unix systems described, as Linux and FreeBSD are Unix-like.This book has always been known for a broad coverage of Unix-systems and a practical approach to system administration. For example, if you wanted to perform a typical administration task, such as adding a new disk in Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/IRIX, you needed only one book instead of tons of vendor documentation.Even that HP-UX and Solaris are dying, these systems are still in use in large enterprises, and are likely to remain there for years. After dropping all systems except for Linux and FreeBSD, and shifting approach from practical administration this book is risking to turn into a just another Linux book that we have many around.However, this is still the best system administration book.A summary of changes I noticed compared to the previous editions:- Boot chapter describes systemd- Scripting chapter dropped Perl and added Ruby and GIT- Much more on sudo (for example, explains how to configure sudo without password)- Syslog chapter now includes rsyslog- Web hosting chapter added Nginx and HAProxyCompletely new chapters:- Configuration Management (Ansible and Salt)- Containers (Docker)- Continuous Integration and Delivery (DevOps, Jenkins)- Cloud Computing (AWS)DNS, E-mail, Networking and NFS chapters didn't change.No more "Serial devices and terminals" chapter.Quite strange to remove this traditional stuff from a UNIX book, keeping in mind that some server models still have only a serial port and no graphics card, so a terminal and a serial port is the only way to manage them.Backups chapter has gone away! Hey, what's going on?Tapes as transportable media and tape libraries are not going to die and will always be in use.System administration without backups? It's a nonsense!Looks like this book is not targeted at enterprise admins anymore.Please return the backup chapter, it must be in the system administration book, and there is a space for it, keeping in mind that this edition is thinner than a previous one by 100-pages.

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!