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O'Reilly Publishing Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

Posted by pudge on from the sweet-unix-luvin dept.

vi-rocks writes "A new O'Reilly book is due for release in October: Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Brian Jepson and Ernest Rothman are the authors. Details about the book (including a sample chapter) are available on the website. Note the sash on the top right hand of the cover reads 'Switching to Mac OS X.' They say you can't judge a book by it cover -- HUMBUG!, I've already pre-ordered :)" The sample chapter information on NetInfo has helped me already.

3 of 71 comments (clear)

  1. Re: Yay! by realgone · · Score: 3, Funny
    And under the Apple section no less! The audacity!

    Those lil' checkboxes are there in the preferences for a reason. Feel free to use 'em.

  2. Re:META: Please flag PDF-links by RobotWisdom · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Obviously you haven't been on Slashdot that long."

    Without even hovering or peeking you should have noticed that my User# is 25776 while yours is 155958.

  3. Don't they really need a book the other way around by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mac OS X has those old OS 9 people running scared.
    They know that the evil command line and a swag of unixy software is under the hood - but they don't want to mess with it. That's why they want lovely gui installs for stuff like PHP and MySQL ;)

    But do you teach them emacs or vi?

    People who know unix can quickly come to grips with OS X. Its only a matter of figuring out what wierd directory stuff goes into. What they will get confused with is Microsoft Office X.
    Also seeing a gui environment running all the time will surprise them.

    I just wish that Terminal.app wouldn't unexpectedly quit on me (with the old error message style that will allow os 9 users to fell at home).