Shadow,
I like FC but its not a distro for newbies (well except me ;) its too bleeding edge! If you want a stable redhat without subscription go with CentOS.
The apps themselves are not as polished as they are when the ymake it to a mainline distro like redhat. If you know what your doing this is np to overcome.
According to Andrew Morton yesterday more of you should be beta testing the kernel.org kernel for them. He said if you don’t you’re just taking but not giving anything back, which would be true especially if you’re using CentOS.