As far as Fedora goes, this site might be a place to get some help:
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html
If you are ready to throw in the Fedora Core towel, I highly recommend Suse 9.3 Pro. Everything works great out of the box with awesome docs. Standard equipment is Gnome 2.10 and KDE 3.4. Pkg mgr. is YaST -- fantastic! Helpful and large support community with simple, knowledgable, and fast solutions at this forum or at:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?act=idx
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Suse 9.3 just became available for no charge:
9.3 is available via FTP from ftp.Suse.com
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3/iso/
the 9.3 5 CD set is apparently on some mirror servers:
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/f...se/i386/9.3/iso
There is also an "evaluation DVD" on others:
ftp://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/suse/i386/9.3/iso/
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This is a super and also stable distro:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5855/1/
Good Luck and Have Fun!