[Techtalk] How do I build a Linux Blackbox?
Elizabeth Barham
lizzy at soggytrousers.net
Tue Jul 29 18:05:44 EST 2003
Andrea writes:
> Hmm, maybe I'm just missing out on some terminology, but what
> exactly is a "black box"? In general terms, it usually refers to
> something whose inner workings are unknown, but can be used anyway,
> but it seems like you are talking about something different.
Yes, that's how I normally define a black box as well - an opaque
abstraction that is fed data and whose inner workings are unknown; we
know *what* it does (like an interface) not *how* it does it.
But, from the context of the message I inferred Subba would like a
bare-working installation of GNU/Linux and build up from there as
opposed to installing many components and then removing the ones she
doesn't need.
Elizabeth
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