Good book for ambitious neophytes, but...

This is a good book for people who are curious about what MacOS X and it's BSD unpinnings can do, but it is of little use to anyone who's already comfortable with the MacOS X Unix underbelly.

While the editing is better than average for an ORA book, organization is lacking- the level of subject complexity varies wildly from chapter to chapter, indexing is poor, and the choice of topics is best described as eclectic.

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