Apps recommendations for a laptop running on a SD card

Hi everyone,
Months ago, the hard drive of my netbook crashed. Because 1.8" hard drives are rare and that SSD of the same size cost a lot, I decided to make it running on a SD card (class 10 for the speed at least ^^ ).
I followd the wiki page about it and installed openbox and SLim on it.
For now, I'm running wicd on it.
Now I'm wondering which softwares I could put it on it.
Because there are a huge number of these apps, I ask for recommendation while I'm searching and testing some of them.
I need them to be [bold]lightweight[/bold] (because it is running on a 16 Go Class 10 SD card).
So, what I need :
-A file manager;
-A VNC and RDP client;
-An e-mail/calendar client;
-A good code editor like notepad++ (I know that it is on Windows, but I use it even on Linux, but I want to avoid Wine on this laptop);
-An openVPN client;
-A terminal to remplace Xterminal;
-A lightweigt tray manager.
It is not much a problem if the softwares have not a GUI, but it is prefered.
Any other recommendations for this netbook would be appreciated too ^^.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by CPU Gastronomy (2010-12-31 17:48:49)

I love command line, but because I have to use some tools only with a GUI provided by my college and that I've got courses concentrated on making GUI, I will need a GUI interface.
For the code editor, because I wanted one with syntax highlighting and tab navigation, I found Geany (available in the community repository).
It mistly needs Gtk and almost nothing more, so it's not environment dependdan
For the two days I tested it, it goes pretty well. Fast, lightweigt and there're a plenty bunch of fun features.
I'll use it the time I learn to use correctly and efficiently vi .
Thanks for rxvt-unicode, I like it more than xterminal (because of the tab feature) and pcmanfm is what I was searching for.
Thanks a lot.

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