Distributions
Open source distributions of OpenZFS are available for the following open source platforms.
(For commercial products, see companies.)
Darwin
At the core of Mac® OS X® Mountain Lion, which is certified to The Open Group UNIX® 03 standard, are Apple® open source Darwin technologies. |
ZFS-OSX
ZFS-OSX brings OpenZFS features to MacZFS.
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FreeBSD®
A full general purpose operating system with several specialized distributions. |
Debian® GNU/kFreeBSD
FreeBSD
A general purpose server operating system. |
FreeNAS®
NAS appliance software. Commercial support is available for sister product TrueNAS from iXsystems. |
PC-BSD®
A workstation/desktop operating system. commercial support is available from iXsystems. |
illumos
The illumos codebase is the foundation for various distributions – comparable to the relationship between the Linux kernel and Linux distributions. The codebase originated as a fork from the last release of OpenSolaris. |
OmniOS
A general purpose server operating system with commercial support available from OmniTI. |
OpenIndiana
A general purpose server operating system. |
SmartOS
SmartOS™ is a specialised type 1 hypervisor platform based on illumos, lean enough to run entirely in memory, powerful enough to run as much as you want to throw at it. Provisioning is blindingly fast, thanks to zones and ZFS file system creation. SmartOS is a fundamental component of the Joyent® SmartDataCenter™ (SDC) product. |
Linux
Since its inception in the 1990s, the Linux operating system has become the most widely used software in the world.
Gentoo
Gentoo provides first-party ZFS on Linux packages to itself and its derivatives. Based on either Linux or FreeBSD, Gentoo can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. Derivatives include:
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