I was excited to hear about the Red Hat 8.1 beta on Slashdot. Back when 8.0 came out, the fonts really impressed me, but some of that was through back-porting cutting-edge code into their current release.
With this latest version, my hope is that the anti-aliased fonts will be through stable software (and not just the latest builds from CVS). In any case, my PC-upgrade plans (which included installing Linux onto the new PC) have been put on hold due to my recent job situation (need a web developer?), so I can easily wait for this beta to mature.