When the player starts the game using 64bit Java 7 on seemingly any 64bit Linux machine the light weight java gaming library breaks down and wont display anything but a black screen. This screenshot was taken before installing ia32-libs, after installing it and testing again though, it brought up the same error. Also tried getting it working with 32 bit java 7, but that brought a similiar message although rather than being a 32 bit word mismatch, it was a 64 bit word mismatch.
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Wow! It works amazingly well after having done that, why aren't these packaged with MC for Linux by default? It's a pretty major bug with a freakishly easy fix.
Simply put, the same version is packaged with all distributions of minecraft. Newer versions also cause problems with the client on other operating systems, which are more difficult to fix than simply updating.
Well it seems to me like it would probably take only 20 minutes to create a seperate folder on the server with the updated LWJGL files and make the launcher download those instead of the default when it's on a Linux system. Clearly the launcher is already capable of identifying which OS it's running on, otherwise it'd download the natives for all OSes,
Update your LWJGL here