Afotoy to Linux 1.0 anakoinw8hke, h doyleia exei proxwrhsei pros8etontas diafora xarakthristika. To Linux 1.2 perieixe beltiwseis sth taxuthta prospelashs twn diskwn, beltiwseis twn termatikwn, beltiwseis ths eikonikhs mnhmhs (virtual memory), yposthrijh gia polles platformes, quotas, kai alla polla. To Linux 2.0, h trexoysa sta8erh ekdosh, exei akoma pio polles beltiwseis, eidika sto 8ema ths apodoshs, arketa kainouria prwtokolla diktuwn, mia apo tis taxuteres ylopoihseis toy TCP/IP poy yparxoyn, kai polla, polla alla. Akomh pio kalh apodosh, pio polla diktyaka prwtokolla kai polloi odhgoi syskeywn 8a einai dia8esimoi me to Linux 2.2.
Akomh kai me perissoteres apo 3/4 toy ekatommyrioy grammes kwdika sto kernel, yparxei akomh polus kwdikas poy apomenei na graftei, kai polla boh8htika keimena. Parakaloume ginete melos ths hlektronikhs listas linux-doc@vger.rutgers.edu an 8elete na prosferete sto gracimo boh8htikwn keimenwn. Steilte ena hlektroniko gramma ston majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu me mia mono grammh, poy 8a periexei thn lejh ``help'' sto kyriws swma toy mhnumatos (oxi to Subject).