Any reason why you used Fedora instead of Debian? The Debian Wiki is more complete and up-to-date than the Fedora one and can be done fairly easily even by noobies to Linux
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ianLinuxServer
If your Fedora isn't compiling properly, then you are probably missing some needed library files or something. I dunno exactly. I imagine the Linux gurus can probably help get you running on Fedora if that is what you decide to stick with.
I personally run my server on Debian and I have no complaints about it at all. It is much better than Windows for sure lol.