Network World's Mark Gibbs writes a glowing review of the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux PDA . . .

“We have come by an amazing device that's cool and it possesses an incredible geek quotient! The device is Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 — the first PDA built on Linux and sporting Java . . .”

“There are all sorts of cool tools and applications for the Zaurus SL-5500 . . . you'll find links to toys such as Bluetooth support, wireless tools, a version of nMap (a powerful network exploration tool), the Apache Web server, a caching proxy server for fetching and offline reading of Web pages, MySQL server and client, Samba (so that you can create network shares à la Microsoft networking) and dozens more way cool tools . . .”

“Developer support for the Zaurus is great . . .”

“This is one of the coolest toys, er, tools we've played with, er, evaluated for some time. We award the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 10 gearteeth out of 10! We wonder if they'll forget we have it? . . .”

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