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==Current status and usage==

As of January 2012, ELKS is under sporadic development. The CVS repository was migrated to Git in February 2012, and numerous patches from the Linux-8086 mailing list were committed to the ELKS Git repository. The latest released version is 0.1.34<ref name="officialsite"/>(Gzip filewhich ofincludes 0.1.3updated isfloppy corrupteddisk images, but 0.1.1 is still working and available) and the latest EDE version is 0.0.5b.<ref>[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3232&package_id=68748 EDE SourceForge download page]</ref> Some of the patches committed to the Git repository include fixes for 0.1.3 that make ELKS compile properly.

ELKS runs on [[IBM PC compatible]] systems and on [[Psion PLC|Psion]] SIBO PDAs. It was planned to be developed into the [[FlightLinux]] [[Real-time computing|real-time]] operating system for [[spacecraft]]s, but the project it was intended for ([[UoSAT-12]]) eventually settled on the qCF operating system from Quadron Corporation instead.<ref>[http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-8086/msg00264.html Linux-8086: Flight Linux]</ref>