swh - I don't know. Linux was originally designed for the x86 architecture but there are many ports to other platforms including SPARC. Sun is currently very hot on Linux -
http://wwws.sun.com/software/linux/ I just had a quick Google and there's plenty of stuff for you to look at.
SuSe has SUSE LINUX 7.3 for Sun Microsystems' SPARC architecture downloadable - see
http://www.suse.com/us/company/press...SUN_linux.html
Let's stay on track with Linux for the average Joe or the mods will quite rightly get pi**ed off.
Tinny - I think a lot of people like you (and me) loaded an older distro on older hardware a couple of years ago to try out - found it slow and hard to set up and lost interest. The new kernel and distros on up-to-date hardware is a completely different proposition.