[avr-chat] Alternatives for minicom

[Juergen Harms]

I am using (Linux platform - Mandriva/Mageia) minicom as a terminal 
emulator on my serial port to display data received from my Atmel 
microprocessors.

I have had some problems making minicom on work a new Linux release - it 
works now. But, solving the problem made me have a closer look at 
minicom: I decided to explore alternatives (after patching
it works nicely, but looking a the code it does not look "sound": 
curses-based, all the not-needed modem stuff, lot of dead code carried 
along for systems that pratcically do not exist any more, and the 
configuration looks messy - conflicts between the nice curses based 
dynamic configuration of minicom and the "make-oriented" static 
configuration mechanism in the shipped package). The result is overly 
complex and looks diffcult to mainain - how long will it survive?

What alternatives can other Linux users suggest? Thanks!