From the beginning, Linux hasn't played by the rules. Over the years, there have been distributions that took that ideology even further and broke from what others were doing.

One example is when systemd became the de facto standard init system for Linux. That change irked many developers, who then created alternative distributions that used a different system. Even the windowing system saw a bit of rebellion when it became obvious that Wayland was the future. In other words, there were alternatives to the alternatives.

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That situation is the case with Vendefoul Wolf. Not only is the name different, but the distribution follows the beat of a different drummer.

Vendefoul Wolf is based on Devuan, which is a fork of Debian. Think of this system as a lightweight version of Debian.

First off, this distribution shuns systemd in favor of SysVinit. The key difference between the two systems is that SysVinit defaults to a sequential execution model for service start, based on runlevels, and SystemD opts for parallel service startup and manages each service via unit files.