State of ArchlinuxARM on RPi

[doknek]

I will be getting my first 512MB RPi soon and looking around for Linux flavor. I have used ALARM on Pogoplug before and loved it. But, then later had problems with rootfs pacman upgrades and after some upgrades my box crashed. As I am very comfortable with Arch way of doing things, I have some questions:

1. Is ALARM good for RPi for just running a command-line headless server (no XBMC, no UI)?
2. Is 512MB RPi version supported?
3. Can the 512MB RAM split be done with min. going to GPU?
4. Are there stability issues with ALARM? I have read about stability issues with Wheezy.

[WarheadsSE]

- You can run GUI programs, and we have xbmc in the repos (check xbmc-rpb-git)
- I see no reason 512 won't be supported.
- I figure so, since there is a startelf_224 there will probably be an accompanying one for the 512.
- Only the issues with kernel/firmware updating @ the same time, and the occasional upstream regression.

[pepedog]

Just as WarheadsSE said, we get firmware from the raspberry pi people, and source for the kernel, if they have a blip so could we (on upgrades)
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Not as far as I can tell, current draw on USB or poor power supply cause most problems, possibly ext3 might be more stable for rootfs drive (edit /boot/cmdline.txt for that)