Tim Wilkinson
Chief Executive Officer
Transvirtual Technologies

"What we've released so far, we're terming a developer device. My mother is not going to be doing this anytime soon ... We're hoping to ship a product where this stuff will come pre-installed sometime next year. But for now, this is purely aimed at the developer community, a community that can deal with mucking around with weird loading code, and getting stuff into flash memory, and generally doing a bunch of esoteric things to get the stuff on the device."

John Gowin
Chief Executive Officer
LinuxOrbit

"[Screen Media of Norway's Freepad] ... looks really promising ... it's going to be embedded Linux ... and it combines phone services with web browsing and can actually function as part of a workstation. It has a docking station."

Derrick Story
Managing Editor
O'Reilly Network

"It sounds like that not too far in the future there will actually be some real choices in the Linux space for PDAs. We've heard a lot of stuff, but we haven't seen much materialize. PocketLinux is one of the first Linux PDA tools that you can actually download and tinker around with now."

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