Kevin Sonney

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Pittsboro, NC

Kevin Sonney is a technology professional, media producer, and podcaster.

A Linux Sysadmin and Open Source advocate, Kevin has over 25 years in the IT industry, with over 15 years in Open Source. He currently works as an SRE at elastic.

Kevin hosts the weekly Productivity Alchemy Podcast. He and his wife, author and illustrator Ursula Vernon, co-host the weekly podcast Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap (NSFW) and routinely attend sci-fi and comic conventions. Kevin also voiced Rev. Mord on The Hidden Almanac.

Kevin and Ursula live in Pittsboro, NC with a variety of dogs, cats, and chickens.

Open Source Sensei People's Choice Award Ubuntu Contributor Club Author Automation Apache DevOps Cloud Gamer Linux SysAdmin Wordpress Android CentOS Creative Commons Developer Fedora Geek

Authored Content

How I automate plant care using Raspberry Pi and open source tools

I keep tabs on all my houseplants by using Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi.

Travel off the grid and still send emails with putmail

Configure your mail client to automatically send emails next time you have an internet connection.

Manage your Gmail filters from the Linux command line

The gmailctl command-line tool manages email filters with a simple standards-based configuration file.

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My favorite open source tool for using crontab

Crontab-ui is a web frontend written in Node.js that helps manage the crontab file.

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How I manage my own virtual network with ZeroTier

ZeroTier is an encrypted virtual network backbone, allowing multiple machines to communicate as if they were on a single network.

Automate and manage multiple devices with Remote Home Assistant

Link together multiple Home Assistant devices with this centralized control panel.

Contributed Content

17 open source technologists share their favorite keyboards

Whether you are looking for comfort or cool-factor, choosing a keyboard is a deeply personal decision. Here are some of our favorite keyboards.

Our favorite open source writing tools

Opensource.com correspondents share their favorite tools for churning out words.

Authored Cheat Sheets and Downloads

6 open source tools for staying organized

By Kevin Sonney

With contributor Kevin Sonney's productivity guide, you'll become familiar with 6 open source tools to help you stay organized. It includes tutorials for an open source kanban…

5 open source collaboration tools

By Kevin Sonney

Kevin Sonney's productivity guide makes collaboration a breeze with 5 open source tool tutorials. Tools covered in this download include open source email clients, an…

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7 open source desktop tools

By Kevin Sonney

In this productivity guide, author Kevin Sonney provides tutorials for ;7 different open source desktop tools to cover the many aspects of work and life. Fill your toolbox…

Authored Comments

ksonney

19 May 2020

24 Linux desktops you need to try

i3wm is my go-to for a daily driver

ksonney

27 Jan 2019

Get started with LogicalDOC, an open source document management system

Scott has the right of it. Since my wife has contracts with two of the "Big 5" publishing houses, LaTeX isn't an option - they don't support it. They ONLY support Microsoft Word. Many of us WISH they supported other formats (see the linked article by Charlie Stross), because that would make life much, much easier on everyone.