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Thanks Sid Chism for emaling us about this. Y'z Dock is a program launcher like the dock in MacOS X. This application is in beta stage, please send your feedback on any bug you may find to the author.
In order to add icons, please drag and drop a file (.exe, shortcut, etc) straight from Explorer to the dock area. In order to delete an icon, please drag and drop the icon out of dock. Place the PNG images for your icons in the icons folder. Right-click on the icons in the dock, choose 'Property' and choose your icons images there. Right-click anywhere on your dock background and choose 'Setting' to change the settings that apply to the dock itself.

Download: Y'z Dock 0.5.2 beta
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View: Y'z Dock

This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system

Linux has some powerful competition. Leading the pack is Symbian, an operating system backed by most of the major phone makers and already in at least one phone on the market. Microsoft has won a few converts for its Windows Powered Smartphone and Pocket PC Phone Edition operating systems. PalmSource's operating system is also grabbing some customers as well.

But Linux is the only OS for the next generation of phones that is open source, a mixed blessing, according to Keith Waryas, a wireless analyst with IDC.

An open-source OS is generally less expensive than anything developed privately, likely a key point in helping Linux win wireless converts, Waryas said. However, some U.S. wireless carriers doubt that Linux can ever be secure enough to trust with their billion dollar networks, he said.

And Linux has got some pretty powerful competition, Waryas said. For instance, Symbian is backed by most of the cell phone industry, including Nokia, Motorola, Samsung Electronics, Siemens and SonyEricsson.

"You can't forget that the people backing Symbian are also the ones making most of the mobile phones," Waryas said.

Texas Instruments representative Dana Meyers said Friday that several manufacturers are working to develop wireless devices using a Linux version of OMAP, or Open Multimedia Applications Protocol. Meyers would not identify the customers developing phones. OMAP is used to build cell phones.

Seiji Mitsuoka, NEC general manager, said in a statement that NEC is using MontaVista's Linux chips to "help us deliver Linux-based mobile phones to global markets."

Mitsuoka did not release additional details on NEC's Linux phone plans.

A Microsoft representative had no comment. A PalmSource representative had no immediate comment when reached on Friday.