Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit vs 32-bit

2012-11-21 Thread Stuart Ward
Hi Using the 64bit should give a significant speed improvement as the code will be complied to use a lot of the optimized op codes. The 32bit versions of software are usually compiled to a base instruction set so that work on all machines. but as Intel has introduced new opcodes as the platform ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

2012-11-21 Thread David King
On 20/11/12 13:14, J Fernyhough wrote: On 20 November 2012 12:59, David King, linux user wrote: I should also add that the hard disk is still quite new. How much free space do you have? e.g. what's the output of $ df -h ? It has 16 GB free space on that partition. David -- ubuntu-uk@l