Okay, so here we go. I'm using Kubuntu 6.06 (Ubuntu with KDE rather than GNOME), running it on a bottom-of-the-line-four-years-ago (which means painfully so now....) HP Pavilion zt1135, 256MB, Pentium Celeron 1.3gHz processor. I installed the jre-1.5.0_09 .bin file from the java website...