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Re:Porting the GNU Hurd to the L4 Microkernel (2003) [pdf] by rdc12 on Friday July 17, 2015 @03:30AM (#9901629)
Hurd is the higher level services of a micro-kernel, but uses existing kernels for the actual part in kernel space (normally GNU Mach).

So this would be replacing Mach with L4, retaining Hurd for the user space operating system components.

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Re:Porting the GNU Hurd to the L4 Microkernel (2003) [pdf] by jmnicolas on Friday July 17, 2015 @03:37AM (#9901644)
Thanks it makes sens now.
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