It should be noted that the author is Matt Dillon of Dragonflybsd fame. I'll repost a previous post I made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484735 https

It should be noted that the author is Matt Dillon of Dragonflybsd fame. I'll repost a previous post I made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484735 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484735 ------ To also give context as to what Dragonfly BSD is, DragonFly BSD was forked from FreeBSD 4.8 in June of 2003, by Matthew Dillon over a differing of opinion on how to handle SMP support in FreeBSD. Dragonfly is generally consider as having a much simpler (and cleaning) implementation of SMP which has allowed the core team to more easily maintain SMP support; yet without sacrificing performance (numerous benchmarks demonstrate that Dragonfly is even more performant than FreeBSD [5]). The core team of Dragonfly developers is small but extremely talented (e.g. they have frequently found hardware bugs in Intel/AMD that no one else has found in the Linux/BSD community [6]). They strive for correctness of code, ease of maintainability (e.g. only support x86 architecture, design decisions, etc.) and performance as project goals. If you haven't already looked at Dragonfly, I highly recommend you to do so. [5] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/ https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/ [6] http://www.zdnet.com/article/amd-owns-up-to-cpu-bug/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/amd-owns-up-to-cpu-bug/