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

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Linux Journal returns, Automotive Grade Linux at CES, and more open source news

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Top 5: Best of 2017, the future of DevOps, and more

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27 open solutions to everything in education

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kids in a classroom learning about Raspberry Pi programming

Top 9 Linux and Raspberry Pi education stories in 2017

We rounded up our most popular 2017 articles that showcase how education is leveraging the Raspberry Pi and Linux.

Top 5: 3D printer giveaway, sysadmin must-reads, custom GNOME wallpapers, and more

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Authored Comments

Don Watkins

9 Jun 2021

Configure FreeDOS in plain text

Great article Jim!

Don Watkins

29 May 2021

My family's Linux story

Great article. I remember Hoary Hedgehog 5.04. I was visiting Portland Oregon and was invited to the PLUG (Portland Linux User Group). They were distributing Ubuntu CD's and I picked up a copy. Prior to that I had been a Fedora/CentOS user. A troublesome wireless card in my laptop that worked well with Ubuntu was my segue into the 'apt-get' world.