Hi

I am running rh9 on p1. Runnin Gnome on it just slows it down way too much. I am thinking of isntalling some light weight apps. Lets start from the browser. Want to learn webmin for samba so I am looking for a very small browser that lets me do that.

You can use change webmin theme to a no frame's based default and then use dillo as a fast graphical web browser. On the gui side, fluxbox and windowmaker are pretty lightweight.

If you opted out of using a GUI all together you could use lynx, but this has lacks some things such as javascript (I don't think its supported at all, might be wrong) and frames amongst other things.

edit: just tried accessing webmin through lynx, it's pretty weird but does work (I didn't test it all). The reason why it's pretty weird is because images are ignored, so the alt text appears, so the navigation was a little weird.

FreeBSD or Slackware with a light windows mgr. like Fluxbox will make that a usable machine. They will run faster than RH. The windows manager and the amount of memory that you have installed will play a big part in how fast the machine runs. Get 256MB in it if you can, if your going to run a GUI.

Dillo is the fastest little browser I have used but it doesn't render frames, java, or flash.
There are lighter apps that will run ok on that P1, such as
Sylpheed - email client
Nedit, Xedit etc. - editor
Xcalc,
Xnview - immage viewer,
Xclipboard,
Xmix, Aumix, - mixers
Abiword - good word processor
Rox - file mgr
Aterm, Xterm - shell em.

You could probably use a little heavier stuff like Gedit, File roller, Firefox, Thunderbird but their not going to launch very fast. Once you get Firefox launched it'll load pages ok. You're going to need more than 32MB RAM though. Swapping to the HD makes it real slow.

KDE, Gnome and their apps will be so painfully slow that you will give up. Although I use Gedit, File roller, etc on PIIs. You don't have to have Gnome installed, just the gtk libraries.

I would say on a P1 to get slackware for the distro (much faster than any newbie distro(Mandrake, RH, SUSE, etc...)), XFCE as the DE (Unless you would prefer a window manager, than fluxbox is really popular), dillo I agree is a great browser if your just doing basic stuff with it, if you what a text based or console based gui browser links is really good. Fastest advanced browser would be opera, and now it's free for all.

Abiword is definetly agreed upon for your wordprocessing.

I'll stop here as my brain stopped thinking of software. Just do google searches for lightweight (whatever it is you want).