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ArchlinuxARM doesn't list it under supported platforms but does that matter?

Do you know if the SATA on the Series 4 (looks like a Marvell Kirkwood?) supports port multipliers?

I don't know that, no. I know that people have successfully used port multipliers with similar devices. Sadly, I have no current use for one, or I would buy one and give it a go. I am actually just using the USB3. I use the SATA occasionally, like when I want to rifle through the contents of a disk I have lying around.

http://archlinuxarm.org/platfo...
There's a good dozen or more configurations for the hardware.

There's guides on the internet to installing different versions of Linux on it. (Unless you want to do Android dev)
I bought the A1000 version and a laptop HD (plugs in the top).
Then I installed Debian (using an online guide) and MiniDLNA. I use it as a media server for my TV.

By the time I had any need of a hardware h264 decoder in Linux, the drivers were readily available and used by all of the relevant software.

Hardware accelerated video is still huge problem on linux if you don't own one of the few supported brands of graphic cards (nvidia vdpau with proprietary drivers and intel HD graphics vaapi open source drivers). Recently i wanted to purchase odroid-u2 ARM computer with Mali-400 graphics accelerator but the driver support is not there and unfortunately it's not exception.

When it is in stock, the cubieboard is only $49. That's more than the R-Pi but the same price as the original VIA APC and with more RAM and CPU, and substantially less than these new VIA APCs.

If you don't need video the best buy I know of is the Pogoplug Series 4. The Series 4 pogoplug is $40 and has 1xUSB2, 2xUSB3, and SATA along with 1xGigE. I run Debian on my Dockstar, which has 4xUSB2 &one is a male mini plug but that's not useless.

However, IMO there is little reason for most devices that dinky to have disk that fast. I can hardly use data faster than I can get it across USB2. So for my money, the best buy is the Dockstar; they're $13 new on Amazon and even cheaper if you scrounge, they have poor memory but a decent processor, you can have JTAG if you need it, they run Debian Lenny or Squeeze nicely, and they have 4xUSB2 and 1xGigE. I believe you can even get a small amount of GPIO if you strain. In terms of price-performance ratio, I don't know of anything better than a dockstar, which is tiny even in its case.

The Arch for ARM distro isn't "stripped down" by any means. It is merely compiled for ARM instead of x86.
It doesn't contain all the packages that are in the x86 repos, but cross-compiling is possible and you can use the AUR to find what you are looking for usually.

Huh?

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/arm
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
http://archlinuxarm.org/
http://www.armedslack.org/
http://maemo.org/

Fedora and Suse are working on an arm version.

All these guys even have a standards committee setup linaro.

How difficult/easy/impossible is it to actually put an archlinuxarm.org on it?

Because if its doable I'm sold on the Optimus. err... the Transformer Prime.

BTW: by doable I mean a permanent install, no dualboot / flashCard idiocy.

this reminds me of the standards
Only that instead of standards it's linux type OSs comunities that get populated and perpetuated.

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This is sad, very very sad...
Can we at least now acknowledge that the FOSS community has to build the OS top down on their own so that we actually get a product? I mean there is Actually arch for arm devices.
Just convince some desktop devs to throw together a basic tablet/touch UI from spare code left and right (lets call it gnome 3.3)
And then just start writing rom flashers so that it can be hacked onto all existing Android phones.
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