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zebian

Zebian 13. ZFS by design.

Debian 13 + ZFS Root + ZFS Boot Menu

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Debian 13 + ZFS Root + ZFS Boot Menu

  • ZBM boot on EFI and BIOS
  • Stable kernel upgrades with DKMS build stack (opt out)

The right defaults

  • Dark mode
  • US-English-UTF8 by default for any timezone and keyboard
  • Flatpak and Flathub in Discover
  • Non-FOSS drivers (opt out)
  • Common tools (opt out)

Everything is optional

  • KDE Plasma (Wayland)
  • RDP server with lightweight X11 XFCE
  • Virt-Manager preconfigured with KVM + LXC + zvols
  • ZFS Auto Snapshots
  • Swap on zvols
  • Firefox

Caveats

  • No firewall out of the box
  • Did not pass any security review yet
  • RDP sessions don't always work in parallel to Console KDE sessions
ZFS Boot Menu countdown booting zroot/ROOT/zebian13
ZBM boot on EFI and BIOS
Zebian installer finishing, 94 percent
Simple installation
Installer software flavour list with optional components
Everything is optional
SDDM login screen, Plasma (Wayland) session
KDE Plasma (Wayland)
Dark Zebian boot splash with logo and spinner
Consistent branding
KDE Plasma desktop with application menu showing Discover and Firefox
Convinient defaults
Remote desktop session to a Zebian XFCE desktop running a kernel upgrade in Konsole
RDP server with lightweight X11 XFCE
Virtual Machine Manager creating a volume in a ZFS pool
Virt-Manager preconfigured with KVM + LXC + zvols