ARM and Movial released a second version of the ARM Linux Internet Platform (ALIP). ALIP is a stable software stack including most of the GNOME Mobile stack. It’s not a full distribution including hundreds of applications like OpenEmbedded but it’s meant to  provide a solid software stack for easily creating your own embedded project for any ARM based hardware.

ALIP is designed to integrate a hardware specific BSP, including proprietary BSPs, with a generic Linux software stack  (e.g. GNOME Mobile) providing a straightforward way of creating a base for a new product. The UI and application layer is expected to be product specific and ALIP includes only a simple Matchbox based desktop environment.

The changes from the first release are listed thoroughly on the generic-2 release notes but here’s a list of the biggest changes:

• C library is now compiled for the target hardware instead of
  taking it from the Scratchbox’ toolchain as-is.
• example-project was renamed to alip-project.
• Official support for Beagle board.
• Reference BSPs for Beagle board and OMAP3 EVM
• Up-to-date software components (aligned with X.Org 7.4 and GMAE 2.24.3).
• Better support for 3rd party multimedia codecs.
• More meaningful component suites.
• X.Org driver with XV extension for OMAP based hardwares.

Kaze’s (similar to alip-project but using XFCE instead of Matchbox) master branch is already updated to match the new generic-2 release but it’s not branched for stable release yet.