>My idea was to run macos/ppc VST plugins on linux/x86. And not that I >want to run that, but I thought it could be an easier way to be able to >use some vst plugin in linux than running a win32/x86 VST plugin on a >linux/x86 system. But as you mention, it is insane... (as a damn simple >user without lots of knowlegde about these issues, I thought that linux >was "closer" to macos (because unix based) as win.) While as you realised it is not so easy with macos/ppc It MAY be much easier with a macos/x86 vst when those become more commonplace. I am personally waiting to see, and hoping this is very true as the switch to x86 COULD benefit linux greatly because of this. Seablade