I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. After version 0.03, Linus bumped the version number up to 0.10, as more peoplestarted to work on the system. This was in March of 1992. As of the time of thiswriting, the current kernel version is 1.1 patchlevel 52, and 1.2 isright around the corner. Almost all of the major free software packages have been ported to Linux, and commercial software is becoming available.
Much more hardware is supportedthan in original versions of the kernel.
Many people have executed benchmarkson 80486 Linux systems and found them comparable with mid-range workstationsfrom Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corporation.