Vendefoul Wolf Revives 1980s-Era SysVinit With 7.1.1 Kernel and XLibre
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Updated · ZDNet · Jun 24
Vendefoul Wolf Revives 1980s-Era SysVinit With 7.1.1 Kernel and XLibre
1 articles · Updated · ZDNet · Jun 24
Summary
ZDNET found Vendefoul Wolf stands out by replacing systemd with SysVinit and defaulting to XLibre, making it one of the few Linux distros built around an explicitly old-school stack.
Based on Devuan—a Debian fork—the distro also strips things back with no telemetry, LibreWolf as the default browser, and a bare-bones app lineup that omits LibreOffice, an email client and Flatpak.
Installation was mixed: the SonicDE edition repeatedly failed, while the Budgie version installed cleanly but lacked some website-listed tools such as KeePassXC and an init changer.
Kernel options helped its case—Aconita let the reviewer move from the default 6.18.2-vendefoul to 7.1.1-vendefoul—and performance was described as fast, stable and especially suitable for aging PCs.