The free/open (Open Font License) console/programming font Inconsolata is turning out to be a great font for programming and terminal work (best I've used so far, including some of the Windows Vista and OS X fonts). As it is free/open, I would propose it be included as the default monospace font in Fedora. If it's not the default, I'd at least like to see it included. Details here: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Having it used as the default monospace font is unlikely, unless it has glyphs for most of unicode. On the other hand, I agree that it's a really nice font and I'd love to have it available by default. A first step would be to package it for inclusion in Fedora, but as far as I know the Packaging Committee has not officially approved the Open Font License as a Fedora-compatible license (mostly because, to the best of my knowledge, it's never been brought up before). I feel like this should get discussed at the next FESCo meeting.
My mistake - the OFL is a Fedora-approved license, listed under Font Licenses here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing So the next step would be to go ahead and make a Fedora package for the font so people can check it out. Once it's in Fedora, it could be proposed for inclusion in the distro by default. Note that the packaging guidelines say that "when source code is available (like DejaVu), then the font must be built from source."
Someone needs to step up and package this. Until then... deferred.