Please compare real data.

Because OpenBSD:

* has a much smaller number of packages

Says who? Take a look at here http://www.openbsd.org/4.6_packages/i386.html 
(and some packages are only in ports so there is much more packages available) 
and compare it with dev/contrib/extra repositories of OpenSolaris

* often focuses on security instead of updated software so has less to test

Wrong. It focuses on correct, stable and clean code. Newer software version 
doesn't mean mostly something better, but more buggy. Eg. dev 130 and dev 131 
have newer versions of software, but are so buggy that a lot of people have 
problems with those versions.

* has a different target audience

Yes I know. It's mainly for firewall/router, developers and power users on 
desktop. But then it's quite similar to OpenSolaris as it's mainly for storage, 
developers and power users on desktop. Talks from Sun/Oracle about alternative 
to Linux for normal users are simply jokes because eg. multimedia part of 
OpenSolaris is so bad. Even OpenBSD can offer much more multimeda packages and 
codecs. Yea I know. They don't need to care about that stupid IP area.

* is volunteer, not commercial product

That's why it's even worst that Sun/Oracle with so much money and good 
engineers can't offer same or even better quality then some volunteer project.


Don't take it bad. OpenSolaris has some great and unique features and that's 
why many people use it even if their main OS is different. But Oracle don't 
talk about feature of OpenSolaris even at last web cast from conference which 
was during 27.1. and it looks like there is a problem in QA area between 
releases.
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