For now I’m using Renoise on dual core Atom system (based on D510MO motherboard). X86-64 really improves performance significantly and Renoise supports now logical processors too. With 64bit mode and 4 threads it can play included Hunz’s song without problems (at no more than 66% processors usage).
So things start to better for Linux finally. In relatively near future there should be more native Linux VST ports too. (just an opinion based on some developers’ remarks)