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by forgotpwd16 2106 days ago
There were used to be GNU/Hurd distros and Fuchsia (not a microkernel according to their FAQ; the reasoning being the many syscalls) was bootable with user interface within two years. Hurd development was/is slow because of architectural decisions they took, then Linux took off and GNU developers concentrated on providing good tools for it.