Lightweight apps

[madddonkey255]

I have an old desktop that I run with Xubuntu and I was just wondering if anyone had any lightweight programs they'd recommend for it. Maybe if I got enough suggestions I could try and catalogue them for others who have slow machines.

Right now I use:

Distro
Xubuntu, made for slower machines so it works out nicely. There also is Fluxbuntu and UbuntuLite as alternatives.
Icewm seems popular as a window manager instead of Xfce.
Openbox
Rox filer as a file manager.

Office
Abiword as a word processer, fuctional enough for me and much lighter than OpenOffice.
Gnumeric Spreadsheet because it's fast and I also read somewhere that it's more functional then Excel.

Web-browsing
Opera, firefox is too slow, and I couldn't install Swiftfox through automatix so I gave up. It works fine just took a little getting used to after years of firefox.
Dillo, good for slow machines but it lacks the functionality that opera has, it is much faster though.
Galeon
Epiphany
Lynx
Links
E-links
Links2

Email
Thunderbird, there's probably a lighter one out there but I don't keep it running in the background so it doesn't bother me.
Started using sylpheed because of this thread and it works quite well
Sylpheed-claw
Mutt
Claws Mail

Video
Gxine, came with Xubuntu and works just fine for me, haven't really checked for any faster ones.
VLC was suggested but it seemed to be slower than gxine when I used it, it should be said that VLC supports everything though.

Audio
Haven't looked at all but DSL uses XMMS and it's in the repositories so that seems to fit the bill.
Beep media player (BMP)
Audacious


Bittorrent
Used Deluge for a while which worked fine but it locked up a few times and so I switched over to qtorrent which is nice and simple for me, also seems to download extremely fast.
QBittorent

I've added ones from what others have said; I've commented on the ones I've experimented on and the others I haven't used. Please add to the list and correct the mistakes I have undoubtedly made.
Thanks,
Nolan

[juxtaposed]

Openbox =)

[carlosqueso]

Sylpheed for e-mail.

[PatrickMay16]

Icewm, rox filer, dillo, links2 (run with -g option), xmms.

[aysiu]

Originally Posted by madddonkey255 Distro Xubuntu, made for slower machines so it works out nicely. There also is Fluxbuntu and UbuntuLite as alternatives.

I recommend IceWM as well.

Web-browsing Opera, firefox is too slow, and I couldn't install Swiftfox through automatix so I gave up. It works fine just took a little getting used to after years of firefox.

Galeon, Dillo, and Epiphany are worth looking at, as is Lynx.

Email Thunderbird, there's probably a lighter one out there but I don't keep it running in the background so it doesn't bother me.

Sylpheed-Claws.

[Rhox]

Links 2

[compiledkernel]

I think Flock is pretty lightweight.

Links, elinks, elinks-lite, dillo, and lynx are VERY fast, but text only.

[Rhox]

Originally Posted by compiledkernel I think Flock is pretty lightweight.

not really

Originally Posted by compiledkernel Links, elinks, elinks-lite, dillo, and lynx are VERY fast, but text only

Links2 isn't text only.
edit: neither is dillo

[Extreme Coder]

For mail, Sylpheed Claws, or Claws Mail should work well for you.

For video, you might use VLC(supports all formats),and it doubles as a video/audio converter.

For audio, you could use BMP (Beep Media Player) or Audacious(supports WinAMP skins!), both are forks from XMMS.

For bittorrent, you could use QBittorrent, it has more features than Qtorrent, and is more developed.

Extreme Coder

[Onyros]

Mutt has become my favourite email client, in time.

It's not that hard to setup (I use mainly Arch Linux's excellent wiki on the subject), and it's as light as light can be.

Plus, what's cooler than reading and writing your email on the terminal?