Review of BSD Hacks Book

If you are a user of Unix operating systems, then you are already aware of the high-quality software and well-designed solutions that various BSDs offer. BSDs are favored by a wide range of users, from budget-minded individuals who adopted BSD systems early on to developers of some of today’s largest internet sites. BSD is both practical and reliable, as well as extraordinarily stable and flexible. It offers fertile grounds for creative, time-saving tweaks, tricks, and even the chance to have some fun.

BSD Hacks is the latest book in O’Reilly’s Hacks series, and it takes a creative approach to save time and get more done, with fewer resources. This book provides a unique set of practical tips, tricks, and tools for administrators and power users of BSD systems. It also offers fun activities for its readers.

This book provides an easy way for BSD users to be more productive in the command line. There are time-saving tips for setting user-defaults, automating long commands, and saving long sessions for later review. The book is grouped into different areas such as customizing the user environment, dealing with files and filesystems, the boot and login environments, backing up, networking hacks, securing the system, going beyond the basics, keeping up-to-date, and grokking BSD.

If you want to explore and experiment with BSD systems, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own, BSD Hacks is a must-have. This book will convert regular users into power users and system administrators into super system administrators.

Publisher: O’Reilly Media (June 15, 2004)
Language: English
Paperback: 450 pages
ISBN-10: 0596006799
ISBN-13: 978-0596006792
Item Weight: 1.32 pounds
Dimensions: 6 x 1.01 x 9 inches