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There is GNU/HURD that was supposed to be the kernel. However, its development hit roadblock when microkernel design ended up extremely difficult to debug. Sometimes you can't predict real complexity from the architectural drawing board and prevailing hype in academia, pointing to microkernels as the future at that time. Linus just wanted to implement his own, simple UNIX kernel, based off proven principles, without doing original kernel research.



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