What is Fedora?
Fedora is basically a hat, see image in Google
In the computer world Fedora is a new Linux distrbution sponsored by RedHat, and supported by open source community, it existed to replace RedHat free version Linux.

Dual booting howto

• Using PartitionMagic I resized Windows XP partition, and added two new partitions, 9 GB for Linux, and 1 GB as FAT32 partition, to be shared between Windows XP and Linux.
• I installed Linux, with GRUB (boot loader) installed in the partition (and not on MBR).
• I rebooted the machine, then from Windows I used bootpart to add Linux to Windows boot option.