In fact you shouldn hurry up with decision about libaries. But I think SDL is really the best possible way that is avaible. You do not need to write extra ports for window creation for windows and linux, nor do you need (for us windows programmers) exotic x libaries. I also think that SDL is really worth learning and as long as some commercial games (UT2004) are using SDL for their linux ports, I am quite sure it won't disappear from one day to the other. Blut in fact should be seen as absolute evil. Plz save your time and stay away

btw: Nice to see here some action