Feature description
The look of many text mode user interfaces of Linux applictions had been specifically designed for the de-facto standard text mode VGA palette, which every IBM PC compatible computer uses by default after booting. One of the Linux applications sensitive to the color scheme is Midnight Commander (the classic old appearance). In particular, syntax highlighting in the built-in Midnight Commander's editor is barely readable when using any other color scheme.
These are the desired color values:
# https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/blob/master/test/linux-color.dat
color0: #000000
color1: #AA0000
color2: #00AA00
color3: #AA5500
color4: #0000AA
color5: #AA00AA
color6: #00AAAA
color7: #AAAAAA
color8: #555555
color9: #FF5555
color10: #55FF55
color11: #FFFF55
color12: #5555FF
color13: #FF55FF
color14: #55FFFF
color15: #FFFFFF
Additional information
MATE Terminal offers this color scheme under the name 'linuxconsole'.