Linux on Sun

Hi, I'm helping a couple people out with a solaris 8 server and we've been having some major library and gcc problems that I've never seen on BSD or any version of Linux before. The server is a Sun Fire V100 Entry Level Server. It has Solaris 8 and an UltraSparc chip, so it's 64-bit. I've been looking around at different linux version to try and use on it. Me and one of the people want to load on BSD but I haven't seen NetBSD or OpenBSD's Sparc64 ports to be stable yet. This server will be used for web, database, email, and dns serving. I saw that Redhat 6.2 supported the sparc platform, but I got the iso from LinuxIso.org and for some reason it said loading kernel....and it got stuck there. The iso was zoot-sparc.iso. Does anyone have any recommendations for a version of Linux or BSD to put on a sun server? Solaris has just been causing too many problems. I also don't like the lack of user control panels for solaris. (there are many available for redhat). Thanks for the help! Oh, and I forgot to mention, the Sun Fire V100 is the new version of the Netra X1. Thanks!

Anyone?