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 Author Comment Gardener Open education 100+ Contributions Club Contributor Club

Authored Content

Getting started with Etcher.io

Create bootable USB drives or SD cards with this easy-to-use media-creation tool.

3 text editor alternatives to Emacs and Vim

15 open source applications for macOS

Dedicated open source users won't find it hard to use their favorite applications on non-Linux operating systems.

Why libraries need to get with apps and APIs

Tomorrow's library management software will be flexible, modular, extensible, and affordable.

Support the uncommon women in your life

Women in tech have long taken a backseat to men in leadership roles. Kelsey Merkley is out to change that.

Solving one of the biggest problems facing digital music production

Learn more about how Bela, an open source platform for high-performance audio, addresses latency.

How Linux got to be Linux: Test driving 1993-2003 distros

Autonomous car platform Apollo doesn't want you to reinvent the wheel

Self-driving vehicle technology opens up.

Authored Comments

Don Watkins

5 Sep 2021

Create a photo collage from the Linux command line

Neat article. I didn't know you could do this. Thanks for sharing.

Don Watkins

19 Aug 2021

Check free disk space in Linux with ncdu

Thanks for the article. I just installed 'ncdu' on Linux Mint. I'll give a try.