I’m a deticated Fedora user and I’ve been wanting to get into Panda3D. I noticed that 1.8.1 SDK doesn’t have any Fedora RPMs, but 1.8.0 does. Is it worth it to compile 1.8.1, or should I just roll with a easy 1.8.0 installation to get started? 
Compiling from source is probably the way to go.