Hi! I've got this ol' Pentium-133 system I just set up with Red Hat 5.2...
How much memory has it got? Best thing you can do for this system, if you're going to try to run *anything* recent, is to max out the RAM and be patient with it ;)
1: Since the Netscape version that came with my Red Hat distro is rather sucky, what are some other browsers I can try that will work with RH 5.2?
Can't think of any that don't also suck. I don't even see packages of KDE for 5.2 (though I know they used to exist). Konquerer wasn't that good back then, anyway, I guess...
Five years ago the web was a mighty different beast, and so was Linux. HTML 4 had just barely been made a w3 recommendation. LSB hadn't been introduced yet. I don't think you can expect any software currently available to run on that platform, and you can definitely expect problems browsing newer web sites. :(
2: This system has a PS2 Microsoft Intellimouse (with a scroll wheel)....
The wheel now works as a third button okay. However, I would like to use it to scroll up and down documents that take up more than one screenlength. Is there any simple way to accomplish this?
http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
3: I deleted fvwm (or whatever it was called), and am currently using WindowMaker as my default desktop. Is there any way to configure WindowMaker to be able to set a screen-sized image as a desktop wallpaper (like Win-98)? Or will I need to use a different Window manager for that?
You shouldn't need to use a different WM, but I think that at that time, setting a background was considered external to the WM's job. You should set the background using some other application, called from your .Xclients file.
You might be able to use xsetbg or xv, depending on the image and what's installed. IIRC, I used to use xv.
4: And finally, I want to upgrade RH soon. What I need to know is, what versions will work right (as in running an XF86 desktop without crawling) on systems ranging from Pentium-133 to Pentium-200, as that is the range of systems I currently use?
Not crawling is going to be partially a function of how much RAM you have. You can probably get pretty good performance out of 7.3. If not, try falling back to 6.2.
If you're up to experimenting, you might also try out BeOS (whatever you can get your hands on, 4.5 would be best, I think).
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