Motorola last month quietly shipped its first Linux-based mobile phone “bound for North America,” in its words. Additionally, the world’s third-largest handset vendor (Mot was passed up by Samsung this year) is offering new “MotoMAGX” tools supporting native Linux third-party apps.

Motorola announced today that the RAZR2 V8 is based on a new Linux-based software stack dubbed “MotoMAGX,” and that it plans to aggressively market third-party development tools around the new stack. The tools comprise a MotoDEV Studio IDE (integrated development environment) based on Eclipse and DSDP (device software development project) software.

“At Motorola, we know that software is just as important as hardware — through the introduction of our MOTOMAGX platform, we are reinforcing our firm commitment to Linux and empowering our developer community to innovate with us in exciting new ways,” said Alain Mutricy, senior vice president, platform technology, Motorola Mobile Devices business.

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