Comment 15 for bug 104512

Sorry to be impatient on this but where are we at on this? Waiting for Sun?

This is a HUGE problem for me... this isn't "I can't play my party poker or check my bills online." This makes my Ubuntu box completely worthless. I am at a facility that uses a Cisco Java applet to authenticate users on the network... no java plugin for my browser, no Cisco applet, no login to web -> dead box.

In an era where the Internet is so important, I think its gateways (browsers) and their associated functionality should demand the highest priority from distro authorities. So much so that I would even vote to take amd64 support out of Ubuntu *until* things like this are fixed. At the very least take the amd64 download off the main downloads page. Granted.. I know I am probably a very small minority of the users but as it stands, i have no use for my box right now. Will have to fall back to 32 bit version until this is fixed.