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[[!meta title="How difficult would it be to switch to another microkernel?"]]

One would have to reimplement the `mach/` and `sysdeps/mach/` parts of
[[glibc]] and [[libpthread]].  Quite a few other Hurd tools also assume a
[[microkernel/Mach]] kernel and would have to be adapted or rewritten.