[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_documentation]] IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-26: < antrik> Tekk_`: regarding microkernels: the basic idea, and really the *only* fundamental difference, is that they isolate things in separate address spaces. everything else goes back to this. < antrik> benefits from the isolation generally fall into two groups: more robustness (main focus of Minix3), and more flexibility (main focus of Hurd) < antrik> while it might also encourage some other good design choices, these are secondary effects: such choices can also be implemented in a monolithic architecture -- and not necessarily harder. just less obvious in some cases...