Episode 875 transcript

FLOSS-875 Jonathan: This week we're talking with Neriman Gelva about Pewter. That is the operating system that runs literally in your browser. Maybe we're stretching the definition of operating system there just a little bit, but still. This is Floss Weekly, episode 875, recorded Tuesday, July the 14th. JavaScript as a systems language. It's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and today we are talking about Pewter. That is the operating system, the desktop that lives on the cloud, on the internet, in JavaScript. I have questions about how this works. It's something like that. Can you locally host it? I think so, but I don't know for sure. I know that it's open source. That's why we have them on the show. And the guy behind it, the man himself, is Neriman Jelva. I met him at the Ubuntu Summit this year, and he did a couple of talks there. Actually, they had him do a lightning talk and a full-length talk all about the what you do when your open source project is a runaway hit. And I know a lot of people would say, "Oh, I wish I had that problem." It's actually a big deal. It's a tiring problem. It's a, t…