Try Diablo....

It's really hugely better on stylus input; I didn't realize how bad it was till I was quad-booting; suddenly Diablo was working just fine (as I'd thought Chinook was), but either of my Chinook installs were painful. This goes for tapping the stylus-board or writing, and for either orientation. I haven't played with Debian near enough yet, but I am habitually running Diablo (sweet terminal and input) and chrooting to Chinook (SDK works, and unlimited /tmp/).