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How-To: Teach Linux To Do Windows, Part 1: Page 13 of 32

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Choosing a Linux Distribution

For this Recipe, I used Red Hat Fedora Core 2, which can be considered Red Hat 11. I picked it for three reasons: I had video problems with Red Hat 9 (couldn't get past 800x600); I knew that USB support is improving rapidly in the Linux environment; and I wanted my scanner and printer supported. So I actually looked for something with a more recent version of the Linux kernel, which will be properly supported in Win4Lin shortly after this article appears.