new project: moserial

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

New project: moserial
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moserial is a clean, friendly gtk-based serial terminal for the gnome 
desktop. It is written in vala for extra goodness.


Features
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- ASCII and HEX views of incoming and outgoing data
- Logging to file of incoming and/or outgoing data
- Support for x, y, and z-modem file send and receive
- Support for profile files, to load/save common configurations
- Easier to use than the alternatives
- Supports i18n
- It even has docs!


Who's It For?
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moserial is primarily intended for technical users and hardware hackers 
who need to communicate with embedded systems, test equipment, and 
serial consoles.


The Competition
===============

moserial seems to fill a gap in gnomish software.

moserial is intended to fully replace the qt/kde-based cutecom. cutecom 
is nice, except that its UI is not well thought out - too many clicks 
are need to start logging, for example. Plus the qt nature of it is out 
of place in gnome.

moserial also partly replaces the text-based minicom.

For those migrating from Windows, moserial replaces the handy Hyperlog 
for Windows (a non-free serial file capture utility), HyperTerminal (the 
default simple serial app), and Bray++ (a hacker's serial terminal).


Where?
======

The svn repo is at:
svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/moserial/trunk

The tarballs are here, for now:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=250455

You'll need a bleeding-edge distro (Fedora 10 or Ubuntu 9.04) to get a 
sufficiently recent vala compiler.


Bugs
====

I've asked for moserial to be added to gnome bugzilla. Presumably no 
bugs will be found before then...


Enjoy!


- Mike