Re: Most useful applications?

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

Hoover6617 aol com wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new both to the mailing list and to Linux.  I think reading over the
> installation guide (repeatedly:->), has answered most of my questions
> regarding initial setup.  I was just perusing the list of available tools that
> come with Red Hat Linux 5.2, however, and though I initially thought I had a
> good idea of what programs I wanted to install, I am now overwhelmed.  I do
> know I want to install Apache, X Windows, the C and C++ compilers, FORTRAN,
> Pascal, assembly, and Perl, as well as most of the multimedia and Internet
> tools.  I have about 500 MB of free disk space to work with, so I was just
> wondering if anyone had some suggestions on what the most useful, pertinent
> applications were.

Well, I'd seriously consider getting another hard drive.
500M is going to be tight if possible for any development,
and certainly not enough for everything from C to FORTRAN.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com