Second edition of TPOSANA
Jun. 10th, 2006 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomLast week we signed a contract to write a second edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration. It isn’t going to be a big update, just a lot of much-needed updating. We’re also adding a new co-author. I don’t think we’ve announced who it is yet, so I’ll keep you all in suspense.
But what I really want to tell you in this LJ entry is:
This morning I sat down and started reading it from page one. I took a spare copy and started marking it up. Oh my god, the first 30 or so pages suck. How was this book a success when all the stuff at the front sucks so hard? How did anyone ever get to Chapter 2 when it starts to get better?
And the fact that the book is so Solaris-centric is bizarre. The world has really moved to Linux and I don’t think we mention Linux except rarely.
P.S. If you have suggestions, corrections, or want to point out things we missed the first time around, etc. let me know!
But what I really want to tell you in this LJ entry is:
This morning I sat down and started reading it from page one. I took a spare copy and started marking it up. Oh my god, the first 30 or so pages suck. How was this book a success when all the stuff at the front sucks so hard? How did anyone ever get to Chapter 2 when it starts to get better?
And the fact that the book is so Solaris-centric is bizarre. The world has really moved to Linux and I don’t think we mention Linux except rarely.
P.S. If you have suggestions, corrections, or want to point out things we missed the first time around, etc. let me know!
