I have installed Fedora Core 5 on my HP nx6120 Laptop. It looks faster and stable than previous releases.
My observations:
1. Faster booting - it takes 60 seconds to get login screen.
2. Faster GNOME - takes 4 seconds to get desktop from gdm.
3. Samba client and Server - I am able to connect to all my Windows PCs and Servers in LAN without any issues. Windows Printer was configured using System->Administration->Printing tool successfully.
4. Tamil support is excellent with good fonts ...