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Developers are to get access to the handheld operating system, in a move that the company hopes will encourage the creation of more applications.
Motorola will begin selling its first mobile phone based on Linux this year and says most models will follow suit, a major sign of the growing popularity of the operating system outside its stronghold on high-end computers.
Linux Labs has released a beta version of a Web browser for wireless-enabled Palm handhelds.
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