Regarding Jake's article at LWN I just to note that I use Rawhide exclusively for more than six years on the desktop (laptop these days actually). I also have a separate company-issued workstation, that runs Rawhide. All my work is being done on Rawhide, with virtualized RHEL guests (except RHEL 2.1 and RHEL 3, which are fortunately winding down). So I think Rawhide didn't eat babies for quite a while. It's just a general sign that Linux matured quite a bit.
That said, Rawhide must have issues, or it cannot move forward. The most annoying to me personally is that the ATI graphics in my Dell Inspiron 1501 is unusable with the new DRM and X. The system boots barely useable, then gets progressively slower with X looping on CPU in kernel more and more, and eventually crashes. Even so, I don't see a compelling reason to stick with "stable" releases. The last data loss due to a filesystem bug occured to me more than 10 years ago, and last data loss due to GNOME gedit - 5 years ago (but I'm still holding a grudge, go figure).
I run F10 on my travel laptop, mostly to see if SElinux is bearable. Also, my home server is on F10, but that's primarily inertia. They could've been Rawhide just as well.
