[BNM] Eclipse and a typing tutor recommendation and an RSS reader and CD copier

[Jason Bailey]

Hello

We're currently looking at providing next term's student desktop. A couple 
of things have come up. Money is tight.

A few questions were raised and so I thought I'd see if there are any 
recommendations for some software ....

Desktop to be win XP

1. We're thinking of adding Eclipse for Java development and more??? (any 
suggestions). We don't want to install server-type software or similar on 
our desktops. Someone said to me that Exclipse *requires* TomCat to run; I 
didn't think this was true; unless I was doing that kind of development. 
I've got Eclipse installed on my shiny new mavbook pro but to be honest I'm 
not mac-savvy enough yet to work out what's going on. Does Eclipse need 
TomCat for basic Java or other development; or just to run?

2. Any recommendations for a Free typing tutor that will run on XP in a 
multi-user environment preferbably one that will allow us to modify 
settings; like where things are saved? I liked Typing of the Dead but it's 
not free.

3. Any recommendations for a none .Net based Rss reader? We used to use 
RSSReader but this made start-up login too slow and students complained. 
This was on Windows 2000 but I think we'd have real trouble convincing 
anyone to let us install a .NET based rssreader? We might be going for 
feedreader but I've not looked at this myself.

4. Any recommendations for an alternative to Nero CD writing. Burn4Free is 
good but it doesn't copy CDs; does it? We don't have anough cash to splash 
out on hundreds of copies of Nero 6 so will limit this and supply a free 
alternative too. CD copying is a bit of an issue on campus.


Thanks for any info.

Jason