Linux Green vs Linux Mint

September

2023

Linux

22 September 2023 19:19

Small and medium businesses and home users need a domestic operating system. Such an OS could be the domestic Linux Green.

Linux "Green" is a young operating system (2 years old) based on the Linux Mint distribution (19 years old). This version of Linux was released in Russia as protection against sanctions. For example, if FireFox is blocked, the Yandex browser will continue to work. The same applies to the Russian part of the Internet - the Linux distribution "Green" contains Russian security certificates.

The Linux Green distribution was obtained by converting the Linux Mint distribution and retained all the advantages of the original Mint operating system - a friendly interface, low demands on PC resources and regular updates based on the original Linux Mint OS.

There are currently 2 versions available with different desktops - Cinnamon and XFCE.
This article discusses Green Linux 21.1 with the XFCE desktop.

Common to distributions: Green Linux is free for commercial use, as is Linux Mint, GNU GPL licensed.

The Mozilla Firefox browser (replaced with the Yandex browser) and LibreOffice (replaced with OnlyOffice) have been removed from the Linux Green distribution, and Thunderbird has been removed. This article is about the differences between Linux Green and Linux Mint.

The most significant differences between Linux Green and Linux Mint are the package and source code repositories.

1st repository Green Linux(converted Linux Mint), lies on a Russian server -package.greenlinux.ru
(//package.greenlinux.ru vera main upstream import backport)
2nd repository Ubuntu "bases"- on Yandex: mirror.yandex.ru/ubuntu contains 4 sources jammy main, jammy-updates, jammy-backports and jammy-security.
3rd additional repository — yandex browser**, contains a stable version of the Russian web browser, installed from the Yandex repository: (//repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/deb stable main)
If the Yandex repository were to be used in Linux Mint, this would require setting the repository key to the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/yandex-browser.gpg file as follows:
curl -fsSL https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/YANDEX-BROWSER-KEY.GPG | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/yandex-browser.gpg > /dev/null
In the case of Linux Green, all the necessary keys to the Yandex browser repository are located in the distribution itself.

OnlyOffice- The separate repository download.onlyoffice.com is not used. Russian OnlyOffice is built into Green Linux. Open source program OnlyOffice— developers Russian origin, territorially located in Latvia,posted on GitHub. The application is positioned as a free alternative to the package Microsoft Office [34\, but with cloud integration [Microsoft Office](Приложение позиционируется как бесплатная альтернатива пакету Microsoft Office [34\.) And Nextcloud.

Linux kernel

Both distributions use the 5.xx kernel.

Linux Mint 19.3 - kernel 5.0.0-32-generic upgradable to 5.15.
Linux Green 21.1 - kernel 5.15.

Desktop, session

printf 'Desktop: %s\nSession: %s\n' "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP"   "$GDMSESSION"

Desktop: XFCE
Session: xfce

Window manager

wmctrl -m

Name: Xfwm4
Class: xfwm4
PID:
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: N/A

Appearance of Linux Green XFCE

Comparison of Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE and Linux Green 21.1 XFCE

Favorites

Program	Linux Mint 19.3	Linux Green 21.1

Graphics

Program	Linux Mint 19.3	Linux Green 21.1

Tools

Program	Linux Mint 19.3	Linux Green 21.1

Internet

Program	Linux Mint 19.3	Linux Green 21.1

Multimedia

Program	Linux Mint 19.3	Linux Green 21.1

Settings

Program	Linux Mint 19.3	Linux Green 21.1

Office

Program	Linux Mint 19.3	Linux Green 21.1

System

Program	Linux Mint 19.3	Linux Green 21.1

Links:
*Linux Green home page - greenlinux.ru*
Linux Green download - greenlinux.ru/download**

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