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+[[!meta title="How difficult would it be to switch to another microkernel?"]]
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+One thing for sure is to rewrite the mach and sysdeps/mach parts of glibc and
+libpthread. Quite a few tools also assume a Mach kernel and would have to be
+rewritten.