UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) (12/08/90)
I wish I was buying one. Oh well. However, some people who trust my opinion are buying low end NeXTStations, which brings me to the following question: Where are some guidelines for setting up a stripped down NS for straightforward single-user use. I heard somewhere that the administration software helps users uninstall undeeded software---is this all it'll take? At least for a good while, my friends won't need mail, accounting, term(cap|info), and probably lots of other stuff that resides on the 105MB disk. Also, am I correct in assuming that the admin software is good at setting up user accounts, archiving inactive directories, and backing up to floppies? Hmmm. Any publishers out there. I can write. How 'bout a book targeted at the low end, isolated, first time with Unix, NeXT User??
aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) (12/13/90)
> > Where are some guidelines for setting up a stripped down NS for straightforwa > single-user use. I heard somewhere that the administration software helps > users uninstall undeeded software---is this all it'll take? At least for > a good while, my friends won't need mail, accounting, term(cap|info), > and probably lots of other stuff that resides on the 105MB disk. > > Also, am I correct in assuming that the admin software is good at setting > up user accounts, archiving inactive directories, and backing up to > floppies? > > Hmmm. Any publishers out there. I can write. How 'bout a book targeted > at the low end, isolated, first time with Unix, NeXT User?? As it happens, there is a *very* good book out, called the NeXT Bible, that covers everything a somewhat naive user would need to know. It got me going on my first date with the Cube, and even introduced me to a bit of programming. It also covers general, non-NeXT-specific stuff about the history of UNIX, networking, etc. I recommend it!
jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) (12/17/90)
/ comp.sys.next / aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) / Dec 12, 1990 / > As it happens, there is a *very* good book out, called the NeXT Bible, > that covers everything a somewhat naive user would need to know. That book is so full of false statements, that "a somewhat naive user" wouldn't know which statement is true and which isn't. If you learned from that book, you learned about some system other than Unix on some machine other than NeXT, one that exists only in the author's imagination. For more details, pick up my review of that book from the Buzzings (or BuzzNUG or NUJ) directory at any of the major ftp arthives for NeXT stuff. (It's a separate WriteNow file.) > It got > me going on my first date with the Cube, and even introduced me to a > bit of programming. It also covers general, non-NeXT-specific stuff > about the history of UNIX, networking, etc. I don't write book reviews very often, but I just had to write that one, to warn beginners away from that book. I'm sorry that you missed it. The chapter on networking is the most ludicrous one in the whole book. If you ever have to do networking, you'd be much better off knowing nothing at all than having read that chapter. The NeXT Bible is a well-written book of science fiction. Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob
glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) (12/17/90)
>The NeXT Bible is a well-written book of science fiction.
Well that's one opinion. I really enjoyed it and found the overall
content to be so good that picking on the inaccuracies would be a waste
of time - sort of like spelling flames on the net. My opinion is
get it and get excited and positive about the NeXT, Unix and the
other things that Clapp wrote about. It's an excellent example of
what can happen when a Mac lover actually gets a cube to use and
program with, rather than speculate on it and argue about it
in forums like this. Well worth the money. If you've already
got a cube, I can't see what you'd get out of it however.
All of this is my opinion, and your mileage bla bla bla.
- g