First of all. There is now a linux(i386) .so for PHP5 available. It's compiled on a Feodora 6 core. Hope it will work for most people.
I also noticed that there is some action at RTL to support ARAPI 7.0. I will look into that. And also add the ARGetEntryBLOB() function to RTL. So there are new code and functionallity comming.