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If 10% of your OS code is in a small piece that might be called a microkernel, and 90% is in one huge blob that implements everything else, then you don't really have a microkernel OS.

Or to phrase that more directly at the point: for monolithic kernels to be obsolete you have to break up the monolithic part, not just shim a microkernel hypervisor on top of it.



Depends on which OS, there are more than three out there.

Additionally there is a certain irony to use a monolithic Linux kernel, only to drown it on layers and layers of containers with Kubernetes.




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