Star Windows 7 Hits 3% Market Share, Approaches 4%
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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RE[4]: Windows market share
by lemur2 on Thu 5th Nov 2009 22:58 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Windows market share"
lemur2
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"Ubuntu/Kubuntu comes with vastly more and significantly better quality desktop software
Now, if only the Ubuntu team had done any form of q/a, I could've actually enjoyed that desktop software you're talking about. As it stands now, I'm using an Intel video chipset. Meaning, no Ubuntu/Kubuntu, because the Ubuntu team failed to test their release on the most common brand of video chips. Fail. "

Here you go, Thom, this may be a work-around for you:

http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2009/11/are-your-graphics-dead-in-...

The problem is apparently with kernel mode setting, which is causing X to die.

To disable kms, pass the parameters "i915.modeset=0" to the kernel on boot. The linked article has instructions for doing this for the liveCD and also for the Ubuntu subsequently installed to hard disk.

I could've actually enjoyed that desktop software you're talking about


Now perhaps you can.

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