I have Suse 7.3 running on a Sun Ultra 30 and a SS5/170 - works great.  
For those times when you need the rock-solid hardware w/o solaris - I can 
personally vouch for Suse.

Note: I have seen Debian on a Ultra 1, and it appeared to work just fine.

Gary


On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Anthony Hologounis wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I recently acquired a sun ultra 5 box. I would like to put linux on it. 
> I see that Suse and Debian have software available for sparc. I would 
> like to know whats the best one to go with. I currently use Redhat, Suse 
> and Mandrake for intel.