FW Editor: Why did you develop JULinux? How is this special among the other Linux based operating systems?
Justin Breithaupt: JULinux first started out as Ultumix but before that I never thought I'd ever be releasing my own Linux distribution. Back in 2000 an X Microsoft programmer who developed Microsoft's OS and Software from the beginning up until 2000 moved back to my home town and started telling me I should give Linux a try. I didn't know what Linux was and the distributions he had me use were Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu, and Fedora. I never actually tried Ubuntu back then although I did see it. I was interested in the new OS I was introduced to but I became disgusted with the learning curve, lack of driver support, and the fact I didn't like the current open source software and the commercial software wouldn't run on it. I was primarily a user at the time. Shortly after I started fixing computers for money while I was still in High School. This frightened my parents because of liability concerns. Did I really know what I was doing? I fixed Windows PCs. I went to college in 2003 and they forced me to learn Fedora Core. After getting threw my Linux course at college I saw the benefits of using Linux but I needed a better interface people could identify with, I needed the ability to install Windows applications, and good driver support. PCLinuxOS had the interface I wanted but Ubuntu had the driver support. I started out by customizing PCLinuxOS installs on people's computers and using Ubuntu only if PCLinuxOS didn't have the driver support. A man in Texas named Ken Starks told me how I could remaster PCLinuxOS. I figured it couldn't be that simple but I tried it anyway. I called it Ultumix 0.0.1.0 and I decided to share it with the world. It had everything everyone needed including the illegal codecs and drivers I didn't know were illegal. Users loved it but the PCLinuxOS community got very angry with me. They were quick to point out my mistakes and so I removed all the illegal content and put out another version instead and instructed people to install the extra things at their own risk. The PCLinuxOS community at that time was made up of some Jehovah's Witnesses and an anti Christian Hate Group based either out of North or South Dakota. At this time I had just made the transition to DSL Internet and I didn't understand anything about Internet Trolls. Plenty of slander was spread about the name Ultumix and you can even find an entire hate site dedicated to me where my posts were edited and removed to further incriminate me. I wrote to Richard Stallman and asked him what to do. He gave me good advice and after following it everything seemed to stop. After getting fed up with the PCLinuxOS community for technical and personal reasons I decided to look for something else to base Ultumix off of. I tried Linux Mint for a while but found that everything was custom compiled and that Ubuntu and Mint packages didn't always get along at that time and that Mint was hard to remaster. I decided to remaster Ubuntu. I still was convinced KDE was the best interface for Windows users at that time. After we changed the name to JULinux to get away from the bad publicity of Ultumix I looked at the Gnome XP code that made Gnome look just like Windows XP. I needed to edit all the graphics and make a free and open source version that would be legal to redistribute. Gnome had less bugs and glitches with the Open Source software. Ubuntu had the best hardware support and was the easiest to work with. So that's why JULinux8 is the way it is today. The X Microsoft programmer helped me develop the Finish Install script that installs everything the user needs. So now what you have is a Linux Distribution that runs all Windows Applications supported by Wine and PlayOnLinux, has all the codecs you need, has a friendly interface, and has the Hardware Support you want, as well as free tech support. As a Christian I give all the credit and the glory to God for the results of my work. In the near future I may be looking yet again at another distribution to base JULinux off of because I don't agree with the changes Canotical has been making to Ubuntu.

FW Editor: If a gamer decides to use your software, will the games still be available?
Justin Breithaupt: Any Open Source Linux game works on JULinux and if you have trouble installing anything you can just call us and we will use remote control software to install it for you. As far as Windows based games go JULinux has PlayOnLinux and Wine allowing for the easy install of most popular Windows Games. There is a search engine at www.justuselinux.com that can be used to look up games and programs and instructions to install them on Linux. The easy thing to do is go to Google and type in: WineHQ followed by the name of your program or game. I'll admit that with Windows applications some times installs don't go perfect and some times it takes a little knowledge about Windows applications however the trade off is worth it because Windows 7 can't run any Dos applications, can't run most Windows 98, 95, 2000, ME, XP, etc. and JULinux can.

FW Editor: Do we need to run JULinux with a command line? If we do not, is that still an option, if we want?
Justin Breithaupt: The user does not need to open a command line and do anything however it is an option. When you run the Finish Install script a command line will open and ask the user questions however it does everything automatically.

FW Editor: Do you need any special knowledge to install and use JULinux
Justin Breithaupt: Not at all. All you need to know is how to download a file, burn an .iso to a DVD-r or +r but not a RW and it will work. You can also install it if you know how to use unetbootin to put it on a USB Flash Drive and boot from that.

FW Editor: The big problems of Windows are price and viruses. Does JULinux solve those problems? Why should a windows user switch to JULinux?
Justin Breithaupt: JULinux and the open source software are all free of cost as well as the support but we like donations. JULinux dose not suffer from computer viruses at all. Web browsers and e-mail clients still suffer from viruses once in a blue moon but that problem can be fixed by simply deleting the hidden folder containing the browser or e-mail client and restarting the application. Viruses effecting Web software are very rare. I just back up my home folder's hidden folders and then copy them back if something should happen. A Windows user looking to get away from costly software that wants to do their work for free and wants the best of both worlds should switch to JULinux because it's the most Windows User Friendly distribution I'm aware of.

FW Editor: Does a programmer who wants to develop asp.net software have the option to use JULinux?
Justin Breithaupt: JULinux is Debian based so anything you can do in a Debian based distribution can be done in JULinux.