> I've seen far more FreeBSD desktops with KDE than with GNOME. FreeBSD on the desktop is quite a minority taste though, isn't it? > That's the reason Rosegarden-4 still has vestigial aRts support in > it, even though it doesn't actually work properly at the moment That's the rub... > it's the only practical possibility of getting RG to work > with sound anywhere other than on Linux. I thought JACK had been ported to OS X, at least initially? If you're producing serious audio software, I would have thought OS X is the most compelling target platform after Linux. Cheers Daniel