Solaris & Linux Books We Use
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- UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook — Evi Nemeth / Garth Snyder / Trent Hein — The bible of *nix sysadmin. 5th edition is the modern reference.
- The Linux Command Line — William Shotts — Beginner-to-advanced shell mastery. Free PDF and print editions.
- Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud — Brendan Gregg — Performance methodology — USE method, observability, eBPF, kernel internals.
- BPF Performance Tools — Brendan Gregg — Modern Linux observability via eBPF — replaces DTrace-era thinking.
- How Linux Works — Brian Ward (No Starch Press) — Internals-level Linux walkthrough — process model, init, networking, devices.
- Linux Bible — Christopher Negus — Comprehensive Linux reference covering RHEL, Ubuntu, and major distros.
- bash Cookbook — Carl Albing / JP Vossen / Cameron Newham (O'Reilly) — Recipe-style shell scripting — practical day-to-day bash patterns.
- Solaris Internals — Richard McDougall / Jim Mauro — Solaris foundation reference — kernel and architecture. Out-of-print but worth tracking.