The goal of the Fedora Project is to build a complete, general purpose operating system from free software. Fedora was created as a result of new business strategy by Red Hat. Fedora is intended for use by conventional Linux home users, and is to replace the current consumer distribution of Red Hat Linux. Red Hat Linux Enterprise is to become a business oriented Linux distribution and comes with Red Hat based support. Support for Fedora is to come from the greater community.
Fedora Core 1.0 (Yarrow) was released on 6th November 2003. Improvements over Red Hat Linux 9 include automated updates with yum, improved laptop support (ACPI, cpufreq) and faster program start time (prelinking).
Fedora Core uses, by default, kernels with the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL).
Red Hat has set up a schedule for Fedora Core 2. [1]