I actually worked on the Wind River Linux team for a couple of years. The distro as a whole is not bad actually. Especially since it switched to Yocto. I found

I actually worked on the Wind River Linux team for a couple of years. The distro as a whole is not bad actually. Especially since it switched to Yocto. I found that most of the actual issues we were having were due to the BSPs we were pulling in from other vendors. And WRL supported/probably still does _a lot_ of BSPs from _a lot_ of vendors for _a lot_ of architectures. There are not that many commercially supported _embedded_ linux distributions. And WRL worked quite well for the vast majority of its customers. And I am proud to have had the honor of working with a lot of smart people there too. My favorite part of the whole experience was that when breakage did happen, it was super quick to fix and get it into mainline. It was the first time I saw such a streamlined release process. Other companies had a release process so convoluted that it would take over half a year for a fix of mine to reach the customer.