Re: Speaking of Fedora being behind....

[Scott <angrykeyboarder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Scott wrote:
>
> > Ben Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Of course, Fedora seems to have goals that are at odds with one 
> > > another in this respect, specifically the goal to "do as much 
> > > development in upstream as possible" seems to be at odds with being 
> > > able to do any modification of upstream sources to add integration 
> > > and functionality.
> >
> >
> >
> > What exactly does "upstream" mean?
>
>
> "Upstream" means the original distribution of code made by the 
> software's author, as opposed to patches or configuration changes made 
> by packagers for their RPMs etc.
>
> Paul.
Aa-ha! Thank you. I've been wondering about this for a while (I see it 
in Synaptic every so often 'upgrades - upstream').

Scott