Mon, 27 Feb 2006
Running Mac OS X Tiger
J.D. Davidson, J. Deraleau, Running Mac OS X Tiger,
O'Reilly
Pretty good this one. There are a whole bunch of books available
to help users get more out of OS X but usually they are aimed at
gently introducing low-level users to something a bit more. This
one is labelled "A no-compromise power user's guide to the Mac".
Nuff said.
The book starts with an interesting history of the Mac OS and
elaborates on the NEXT/BSD marriage that ended up as the new OS X.
We then have a very thorough lookthrough of the various aspects
of the OS including file systems, networking, the terminal, and monitoring
the system, amongst many other topics. When you're done, you'll
know your stuff and it would be a very useful adjunct to the book shelf
just to look up bits as needed.
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