If you want to use Linux, this is the right place to talk about it.

Now, as to your question, I think more detail is needed before it can be 
properly answered.  Here are some questions I have that would guide me to 
help answer:

- By "dumb terminal" do you mean a monitor, keyboard and mouse that accepts 
serial input from a serial connection?  Dumb terminals originally meant a 
keyboard and screen that only had enough "brains" to display a serial data 
stream and send a stream back.  They did not even have mice.  Is this what 
you are wanting to create?
- Are you saying you want to build a dumb terminal using Linux as the OS in 
the terminal?
- What are the dumb terminals going to be used for?  What is the application?

The "right" answer is dependent on the end goal.

Alan

At 12:01 PM 10/10/02 -0800, you wrote:
>This is a bit off subject but I am looking at using Linux as my proposed 
>OS. Can someone direct me to some info on creating dumb terminals from 
>scratch. I am wondering if I need more than a monitor, keyboard, and 
>mouse. Thanks for any help and websites with info or search engines or 
>whatever will get me there. Thanks again,   Cliff