OpenStreetMap
I run Debian Lenny and Java that comes with it - which is not Sun's Java. After upgrading JOSM to 1981 I encountered strange problem: edit area stays white and don't show anything to draw at. But if I fiddle with "height" slider I get to see the data I downloaded but from so high it's useless. On Debian Squeeze (my laptop) JOSM 1981 works just fine.
Luckily the first thing I wanted to do was add swedish name to a street. That could be done with white screen too: first you select the street by it's finnish name and then you add the swedish name and then upload it. Everyhing works fine except showing the map to work with :)
I need to downgrade to JOSM 1788 which I worked with before 1981.
UPDATE: Fabi2 filed a bug 12 days ago http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/3313
Discussion
Comment from Baloo Uriza on 2 September 2009 at 09:31
Another possibility is to use the make-jpkg command to build a sun java package for your system, assuming you are not averse to the license. http://wiki.debian.org/JavaPackage
Comment from Mursti on 4 September 2009 at 06:53
Thanks for your suggestion but I think that I just downgrade JOSM :) I think it's less hassle (although I'm also little averse to the licence too ;) ) that way. I don't like putting non-official -packages in my system. Self-contained jars like JOSM I can live with because I just put them in my ~/bin.