I just set up a fedora 13 linode that I'm using as a virtual desktop system.

When I did a stock install, I ran into a few problems -- I couldn't run a gnome-terminal, for example. It turned out that some lines are missing from /etc/fstab in the default install. So I added:

tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0

And everything worked fine.