[Discuss] Is there a BLU recommended distro?

[Dan Ritter]

Elliott Mitchell wrote: 
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 04:39:05PM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:14:04 -0700
> > Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 7/17/26 12:41 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > > > unlike debian, [Ubuntu] has ZFS preinstalled.  
> > > 
> > > I don't think Debian still missing ZFS.
> > 
> > Debian has included ZFS in kFreeBSD since Squeeze (Debian 6) and in
> > contrib since Stretch (Debian 9). Root on ZFS on Linux kernel is not an
> > out of the box option.
> 
> Yet such can readily be implemented:
> 
> https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/index.html


I can vouch for ZFXBootMenu as an excellent method for
installing Debian stable with ZFS for root.

-dsr-