Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks
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Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks

3.21 of 5 stars 3.21  ·  rating details  ·  14 ratings  ·  3 reviews
If you're one of the many Unix developers drawn to Mac OS X for its Unix core, you'll find yourself in surprisingly unfamiliar territory. Unix and Mac OS X are kissing cousins, but there are enough pitfalls and minefields in going from one to another that even a Unix guru can stumble, and most guides to Mac OS X are written for Mac aficionados. For a Unix developer, approa...more
ebook, 416 pages
Published February 9th 2009 by O'Reilly Media (first published June 1st 2005)
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Steve
Apr 04, 2008 Steve rated it 2 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition Recommends it for: Unix Wise Ones moving to Mac OS
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I got this book because it was $3 and O'Reilly doesn't seem to have an updated version coming out anytime soon, so I might as well use SOMETHING. This book is a very weird amalgam of parts: I wanted information as a Unix Geek *User*, but a lot of the information in here is geared towards the Unix Geek *Developer*: there's a ton of information in here on package formats and the like, which is great if you're porting applications, but 99% of the time, I'm not.

What I was hoping for was a book that...more
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Seth Kenlon
Oct 27, 2008 Seth Kenlon rated it 3 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition
OK, so on one hand this is a thinly veiled attempt to make OS X more like a real Unix (oh wait, I forgot, OS X is real unix...?) Since that can never really happen smoothly, this book fails in any attempt, I think, in convincing a harcore *nix geek that OS X is a suitably flexible unix system.

However, for an OS X geek trying to get over into hardcore *nix, this is a pretty good transitional work. You can pick up a lot about unix from this book, and graduate to a proper Linux book and system afte...more
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Sasha
Jul 13, 2008 Sasha rated it 4 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition Recommends it for: Any Unix geeks still running Mac OS X 10.4
Shelves: technical
This book is truth in advertising. Sadly, books like these do not stand the test of time, due to the rapidly changing nature of technology.
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Chris
May 12, 2011 Chris marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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