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Sun Ultra 20 arrived

Yesterday finally my Sun Ultra 20 arrived and due to lack of time I tried the preinstalled Solaris. It needed 3 reboots until it was configured (that reminds me of Windows) or whatever they call that state. I was asked for the root password but not for creating a user account which every current linux distribution and even Windows XP does. The preinstalled Xorg was misconfigured as the keyboard driver was set to "Keyboard" instead of "kbd". I ran xorgconfig and edited the result with vi changing the bogus driver but the created config results in a black screen which I cannot even kill with ctrl-alt-backspace.

So my conclusion after ~45 minutes of Solaris: time to install Debian