[huskerlug] Linux on SPARC

We have a bunch of old Sun machines where I work and I'm interested in putting
linux on them.  For some of the machines it will mean bringing them back from
the dead, for others it will be a migration from Solaris.  Most of these
machines are workstations in our computer lab which nobody really uses, which is
why I'm interested in introducing something new.  It might sparc some new
interest in these machines (pun half-way intended :)

Looking around, it seems that most of the major distros have dropped SPARC
support quite a while ago.  Does anybody have any suggestions as to which distro
would work best.  I'd like to have a package-based distro of some sort just to
make software installation a bit easier.  Although I realize that most projects
don't package for SPARC anyway, so I'd be willing to play around with a
source-based distro.

Any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated.  

--Ben Chavet

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