O'Reilly Released Running Mac OS X Tiger, The Power User's Guide to Making Tiger Purr

Fully illustrated, this power user's guide doesn't waste time talking about Finder tricks and keyboard shortcuts. It dives in and explains how Tiger is put together and why it works. Most importantly, it gives readers the tools they need to examine how their system is running and how to adjust all the knobs behind its operation and shows how Mac OS X interfaces with the world around it, including wireless and spontaneous networking.

"Mac OS X redefines our expectations of what a computer should be," say authors James Duncan Davidson and Jason Deraleau of the all-new Running Mac OS X Tiger (Davidson and Deraleau, O'Reilly, US $39.95). On the surface, it has a graphical user interface (GUI) "that can't be touched by any other OS on the planet." Under the hood, there's a powerful Unix engine offering stability that will "amaze, intrigue, and serve you."

[Bill Fox]