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Many of the benefits of microkernels have been implemented in Linux over the past 25 years. Modules, FUSE, and live patching for example.

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I don't understand kernel modules, dynamic-loaded or otherwise, to be any more or less monolithic (in the sense of monolithic versus micro kernels). Do they have their own address space or something?

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