JD, you might not have to wait for Java 1.7 if you are willing to take a
chance on a beta.  See Build b28 at http://download.java.net/jdk6/.
They seem to have covered AMD64 in beta.  Unfortunately for me, I have
an Intel X64 but I might try it anyways for laughs.

The un-paid OpenJDK folks are working hard to come up with a stable and
accurate clone of Sun's JRE and Plugin.   Having put my own time into
open source projects, I can sympathize with them.  Not being commercial,
they have limited testing resources -or- you could say that we are their
testing resources.

On the other hand, I know that it is frustrating to wait when you are
trying to be commercial-free ... as much as possible.  I remember that
the 32-bit Sun Java plugin install into the 32-bit Firefox browser was
well-integrated in Ubuntu 7.10....just as automated as in Windows
although in a different way (E.g. Synaptic).  That was a super job and
easy to document/explain.

Unfortunately, icedtea-gcjwebplugin doesn't work 100% yet as a number of
folks have pointed out.  E.g. Try a game at http://www.pogo.com.

Things could be worse.  I could be at work today using Windoze, OutLuck,
and Internet Exploder.

-Richard

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