Talk:Con Kolivas

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Contents 1 Notability 2 Atleast a Stub? 3 I think tone of this article is fine. 4 Greek Australian? 5 Fair Scheduling

[edit] Notability

I really believe Con Kolivas is notable. He is a very prolific kernel patcher. His patches are very useful, but he is a doctor with no formal training in computers, and this is notable and has made him famous in the free software community. Just google for con kolivas.

I am busy for the following one or two days ( and this is why I made this very short stub, hoping other people will extend it), so I can't devote much time to this discussion. But I really can't understand how Con Kolivas is not notable.

Jorge Peixoto 21:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Note that the template says "the article does not establish notability", not "the person is unnotable". I have removed the notice as I believe the article conforms to WP:N. -- intgr ^#%@! 17:28, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Atleast a Stub?

I think that atleast a Stub article will do justice, he has a good reputation as a Linux Kernel Patcher. -Subbu 15:38, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes he is pretty big. Check out the googleing of "Con Kolivas" linux (over 300.000 hits...) or this article (with over 700 comments) on slashdot (a big tech newssite). Or the wiki-article on Linux kernel --Flucker 22:52, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I think tone of this article is fine.

I think tone of this article is fine. If anyone is admin, please check it out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 211.108.120.26 (talk) 02:13:15, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't take an admin to remove the notice, but I think it's justified for now; the article could be phrased more professionally. -- intgr ^#%@! 17:28, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Slightly edited. {{tone}} has been removed pending further review. ~ Jafet (spam) 05:39, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Greek Australian?

Is he Greek-Australian? His last name sounds Greek, and Con could well be Constantinos. --Michalis Famelis (talk) 19:59, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair Scheduling

Kokivas never claimed to have invented fair scheduling, and in his Slashdot article, he said he had not. So it's not his "idea," but his "implementation," where he did great work in adapting the idea to the Linux kernel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Macdorman (talk • contribs) 22:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)