When doing embedded programming, a serial connection is often indispensable, and for this a serial client is needed.

My first experience with such a client was minicom, but I find this overly complicated and non-intuitive. (Which is expected from a program designed to control modems...)

Then I tried GtkTerm. But ...

Since we have a few dozen raspberry pi to use for testing protocols in my research group, we needed some centralized way to set them up. After some googling, I decided to use read-only NFS for the root filesystem. On top of this, we put a read-write tmpfs to satisfy ...