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Your example doesn't make much sense because Hurd is the servers. The microkernel component itself is GNU Mach.

Shipping an embedded appliance with a microkernel and proprietary servers again makes no sense, because it's akin to rewriting userspace from scratch on top of the base VMM, schedulers and disk I/O. Just for a TV set top?



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