Donald,
The first thing that comes to mind is that of using a lightweight windowing system such as XFce, there are rpms available for FC2 all over the place.
Secondly, what sort of installation did you chose ? Laptop, Workstation etc etc, that makes a difference, make sure that you have all services that you don't use turned off, such as Sendmail, SQL servers etc etc.
I guess that the other thing that you could do is make some hardware improvements if you can. This means more RAM ! but before you go down that route try XFce and turning off services that you don't need. I don't know your experience level with Linux but you can also chuck packages that you don't think that you would use off the laptop. I suggest this as the last last last resort.
So your friends at the moment would be the rpm command, serviceconf in the very least and ps -ef for finding out what you are running.
Cheers,
Aly.
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