Is it better to have multiple flavors of a thing to suit the tastes of multiple users, or do the benefits of standardization outweigh the value added by all those variations? That question was at the heart of a contentious discussion going on in recent days throughout the Linux blogs. It all started when DistroWatch published an interview with none other than Linus Torvalds early last week. For those who missed it, Torvalds also featured prominently in the headlines late last month for revealing that he had switched from KDE to Gnome.
