After hearing so much good from a friend of mine who works as a Solaris admin and from the guys at Joyent I decided to hop on and give it a shot . After all the ZFS filesystem and Sun 's Containers really got my attention as being a really solid base for a server platform . So I decided to download the OpenSolaris since my friend told me that OpenSolaris might be a better solution for a desktop / trial environment versus the Solaris 10 OS being better for production . A few gigabytes later I had burnt the installation dvd from the ISO file and I got a slim grub menu ahead of me and thus I began installing OpenSolaris ... well sort of .

Question: Why did they download the software ?
Answer: None of the above choices .They wanted to use the software for work .They had read good reviews about the software .They had gotten a suggestion for it from their friend .