Census 2006 -- Linux is OK after all

[James Knott]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Alex Beamish <talexb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | "In response to demand, Statistics Canada has removed the restriction for
> | Linux. This change takes effect May 13th, 2006."
> | 
> |  http://www22.statcan.ca/ccr02/ccr02_003_e.htm
> | 
> | This seems to support the hypothesis that barring Linux browsers from taking
> | the census was a bad decision -- or at least, not one based on reality.
> | That's pretty cool.
> 
> I am still out of luck.  There is no Java plugin for x86_64.  I don't
> know why.  There is a free-as-in-beer JRE & JDK from Sun -- I
> installed it to try to do the census form.  It just does not include a
> browser plugin.
> 
> I considered removing 64-bit Firefox and replacing it with a 32-bit
> version, but the RPM system balked -- too many dependencies (this is
> Fedora Core 5).  I imagine I could have installed an extra Firefox,
> but this was getting too messy.

Would a live CD work for you?
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