This is my 300th post(it took so long to reach here) and it matches with the release of Fedora 7. For those linux users who started with Ubuntu, Fedora is a RedHat sponsored community project to develop a great GNU/Linux distribution - which will be used for developing the enterprise version of RedHat Linux.
Fedora is a nice distro and I used to use it some 4 years ago before I switched over to the debian way of package management. But Fedora too made its own package management (maybe in FC4?) called yum.
Even though there are people out there who say that Fedora has become the next Slackware, Fedora too has its own fan following - so is Slackware. It is a nice distro to use for the average linux user, even though I doubt whether it would be so easy to use as Mandriva or SuSE.