TheAs developmentof January 2012, asELKS ofis 2006under sporadic development. The CVS repository was migrated to Git in February 2012, hasand numerous patches from the Linux-8086 mailing list were committed to the ELKS Git restartedrepository. The latest released version is 0.1.3<ref name="officialsite"/>(Gzip file of 0.1.3 is corrupted, 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 haswas beenplanned usedto asbe thedeveloped base forinto 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://flightlinuxwww.gsfcspinics.nasa.govnet/lists/linux-8086/msg00264.html FlightLinuxLinux-8086: officialFlight websiteLinux]</ref>
