A debian package for BT747 is now in preparation.
I was contacted to see if I was willing to assist in that , which I agreed. I made some updates already to make the packaging easier, but there is still some work to do by the packager.
I had a report recently about BT747 crashing when trying to make a connection on a Intel Core 2 Duo running "Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid), package 6b14-1.5~pre1-3".
BT747 1.68.5 was using RxTx 2.1.7 - the currently stable version of RxTx and the crash reported:
# Problematic frame:
# C [librxtxSerial.so+0x6462] read_byte_array+0x52