A guide to Sun's new Solaris 2.x system environment. Defines the duties of the system administrator, and examines the basics of Solaris 2.x such as open windows, virtual file system, virtual memory, the Solaris kernal, and shells. Covers administration issues including utilities, backups and restores, network managing, security, troubleshooting, and interoperability. Includes examples of code and file excerpts. For system administrators, application developers, and Intel users unfamiliar with UNIX. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR