I am having tons of issues starting starting eclipse.  It freezes when loading the com.salesforce.ide.core plugin.  I am running:

VMware workstation 8

SUSE 12.1 x64

Java 1.6.0_24 x64

My eclipse setting is:

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20120522-1813
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vmargs
-XX:PermSize=128m
-Xms40m
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-Xmx1924m
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Dhelp.lucene.tokenizer=standard

I am able to start up fine when I move my workspace/.metadata file and it locks up again when I move it back.

Can anyone assist?

Thank you

Is it possible to iterate over a List of Maps? In the simplest form, a Map<String,String>... I want to be able to do the following in a visual force page (simplified):

VisualForce Page

<apex:repeat value="{!customMap}" var="map">
{!map.name} : {!map.custom}

</apex:repeat>

Controller

public someController
{
public List<Map<String,String>> customMap = null;

public getCustomMap()
{
if (customMap == null)
{
customMap = new List<Map<String,String>>();

customMap.add(new Map<String,String>{
'name' => 'Apple',
'custom' => 'Pie'
});

customMap.add(new Map<String,String>{
'name' => 'Banana',
'custom' => 'Cake'
});
}
return customMap;
}
}

 Would hopefully print something like...

Apple : Pie
Banana : Cake