Tips on working with Graphics or GUI Programs on Debian Linux

xCHM - the UNIX .chm viewer can show the contents tree if one is available, print the displayed page, change fonts faces and size, work with bookmarks, do the usual history stunts (forward, back, home), rovide a searchable index and seach for text in the whole book.
PS: debian users-> apt-get install xchm

Linux Game Development
Tools:

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.
Blender is the first and only fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D and game creation and playback with [...]

Gnu arch is GNU arch is a revision control system, similar in purpose to tools such as CVS, SCCS, and Subversion. After considering subversion and arch, I’m going with Gnu Arch (tla).
A brief introduction to Arch

mbrix.dk :: Setting up exim, procmail, fetchmail and mutt
Installing and configuring Exim 4 on Debian
Configuring Exim and Courier IMAP under Debian GNU/Linux
O’Reilly: Eleven Examples for Configuring Exim
Exim - Linux for Newbies: Part 24
Setting up mail for a home network using exim LG #42
Practical Exim - Beginnings of a Book

FetchGMail
Retrieves mail from your gmail account to a local UNIX mail spool, removing the mail from the server when done. This is basically a hacked version of the archiver from the libgmail project in Python with a bit of BaSH.

The UNIX Guru’s view of sex:
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep
{Update}
gawk; talk; nice; date; wine; grep; touch; unzip; strip; touch; gasp;
finger; gasp; mount; fsck; more; yes; gasp; umount; make clean;
make mrproper; sleep

GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem
Debian: apt-get install gmailfs.