Don Watkins (He/Him/His)

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Franklinville, New York

Educator, entrepreneur, open source advocate, life long learner, Python teacher. M.A. in Educational Psychology, M.S. Ed. in Educational Leadership, Linux system administrator.

Open Source Star People's Choice Award Social Sharer Award 2014 Conversation Starter Award 2015 Best Interview Award 2016 Best Interview Award 2017 Moderator's Choice Award 2018 Moderator's Choice Award 2019 Contributor Club Author Comment Gardener Open education 100+ Contributions Club

Authored Content

New features for Raspberry Pi, Wireguard in the Linux kernel, NSA Python course and more open source news

Catch up on the biggest open source headlines from the past two weeks.

Getting started with GnuCash

Manage your personal or small business accounting with GnuCash.

Give an old MacBook new life with Linux

Elementary OS's latest release, Hera, is an impressive platform for resurrecting an outdated MacBook.

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Screenshot your Linux system configuration with Bash tools

ScreenFetch and Neofetch make it easy to share your Linux environment with others.

What you need to know about System76's open source firmware project

This Q&A with System76 principal engineer Jeremy Soller discusses the company's project for an open source embedded controller.

12 open source resources for kids and young adults

Explore new technologies with Opensource.com's top 12 articles from 2019 about learning an open source technology.

Authored Comments

Don Watkins

3 Feb 2022

Build your own container on Linux

Interesting article. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

Don Watkins

21 Dec 2021

Open source desktop publishing with Scribus

Thanks for this great tutorial. I have been looking at Scribus lately and your work is a good point for me to start.