These are some packages that I found useful running Ubuntu 10.04 on a 10+ year old laptop. This laptop is so awesome it has a CDROM and a floppy drive built-in! It's maxed out at 384 MB of RAM which is pretty nice considering it shipped with 64. It's a perfectly capable machine, as long as you pick the right software.

• Window Manager: Fluxbox
• Wireless: install wicd and remove network-manager
• Terminal: rxvt-unicode
• PDF Reader: epdfview
• Web Browser: epiphany
• Text Editing: vim
• Video Game: nethack