Red Hat Enterprise Linux Considered Harmful

While Torvalds holds the kernel devs to the mantra, higher layers are less stringent about not breaking.

For example compiler optimizations are a duel edged sword. There seems to not be a months without there being and article on the NH front page about C ambiguities that compilers will mangle as they see fit.

The article also gloss over that Fedora is backed by RH, it is pretty much their development branch. Many of the people working on Fedora are RH employees.

And that is perhaps the real danger of RH. So much that is happening above the kernel right now come straight out of Fedora.

The people involved there pretty much decide the course for Linux user space, and then supposedly independent orgs like Gnome and Freedesktop rubber-stamp that course.

This because they can devote their day to hammering out reams of code that solidifies that direction, while other distros have to rely on the spare time of their community members.