On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
  For me TOS is still the best OS for MIDI usage
with external MIDI
 equipment, but this isn't true, the Atari ST's response is very good
 when using a Blitter, but very bad when not using a Blitter.
 For Linux I noticed, that when running into trouble because of
 resources, ION2 is a very good WM, but sometimes ION2 has got troubles
 because of some windows behaviour. I can't remember the applicatuions,
 but if I would be a coder for Linux, I would take care about WMs that
 are frame based, without any DE. 
 Did you try Enlightenment 0.17 ? In addition, it is based on a
 powerful set of libraries that can be used to create beautiful
 applications. Here is a program that uses these libraries (media player):
 
http://www.calaos.fr/pub/video/calaos_media_music.ogg
 regards
 Vincent Torri 
E17 looks well, but when I used it a long time ago on another machine it
was disgusting experimental ;).
I can't play the OGG? Are you sure that it isn't broken?
Cheers,
Ralf