What is the crowd's opinion of yoshimi?

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I think Yoshimi is a good candidate. It has nearly a billion voices. And you can program pitch bend and auto bend.

Runs on Linux so if you have an old pc you could use it as synth. Very powerful.

http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/

My track for this week: Soundcloud/Splice

For this week, I used a Raspberry Pi as an external synth: MIDI was routed to a Raspberry Pi 2 that was running Yoshimi. The sound quality is not the best, but I wanted do experiment using some Linux VSTs.

I am more looking into hardware, or a combination of midi hardware and software.
I already have bristol installed and it is some amazing piece of software. But the problem with software is that I don't have any real knobs and keys to use with my hands and I get bored pretty fast, with 'hardware' it seems I just can't stop experimenting.
I can also recommend Yoshimi (a successor to ZynAddSubFX).
As for the 808, is there an alternative program/plugin for linux? I can use vst plugins if it really has to, but it's such a hassle.
Thanks for all the information.

I love Zynaddsubfx, best softsynth for linux in my opinion. There is a project based on Zynaddsubfx named yoshimi, which tries to combine the original synthesis engines with better ALSA and Jack connectivity.