I wouldn't say that it comes with the bare minimum. I think there are lots of useful tools that come with it. But I guess that all depends on what you use it for. I personally haven't installed any extras except Jbuilder9 to do my java programming. Another site is www.rpmfind.net, I've only used it a couple of times in the past, but it seemed to have what I was looking for. Just think of a program you want and do either a google search on it or a search on rpmfind.net and you're bound to find it. I think you'll like RH9, I do.