[RULE] Resource -light apps

[Owen Dorsey]

Hello Martin, and the rest of you knights in polished armor,
        Thank you, Martin, for your immediate and warm response, I feel
included, and your mention of more pointers for useful software was
incisive. For clarification, I did add more RAM as soon as the larger
strips were available; I am now maxed out. Also, after the HDD gave up
the ghost, I tried no less than seven replacements, used or new, of
various sizes !, and was reduced to a near-OEM replacement of a mere
1.3GB! (They were no charge except for the one that works, because they
didn't work.) I am dedicated to keeping this machine useable, and I
will use it as long as I can but I am tired of messing with hardware,
and I think I've reached a logical hardware-stopping-point.
        Going back to useful software, all of your help will be a great time
saver, and I'll do my part to advance the cause. For starters, I
figured that because KDE came packaged with a web browser and e-mail
and a CD player and word processor, I could cut the fat and speed
things up by just installing KDE, and ignoring Mozilla/ Netscape, etc.
I'm now dimly aware that it is more complicated! There are some
choices on the RH 7.2 CDs I have, and many more out there.
        I realize, from reading all of your RULE information, that a primary
focus of RULE is to get RHat installable with small memory, and I
don't really have that problem: it will install, slowly, on my
computer. The secondary problem of usability is my concern. With help,
and by trial and error, we will arrive at the best compromise of crisp
speed and features. And I myself will become a fully featured Linux user.
        These first two posts by me are long winded, in the future I can cut
the crap. XFce sounds good, Opera or small Mozilla, any others? I will
definitely try the RULE installer and report back.

Thank you all, Owen