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Linux ate my RAM

Linux is borrowing unused memory for disk caching. This makes it look like you are low on "free" memory, but you are not! Everything is fine!

What is disk caching? It is a way for the operating system to use unused RAM to speed up disk access. When you read a file, Linux will keep it in memory so that if you read it again, it can be accessed much faster.

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My FOSS

I finally escaped from the telemetry secret agents :)

Thank you, FOSS!

As a way to give back to the FOSS community, I have created and maintained a Fedora Copr repository, coprs/thangckt, to keep up-to-date builds of various cutting-edge packages for the latest RedHat based distros.

The repository includes even essential daily-use packages, such as mail client, office stuff, to critical scientific applications like Ovito, Zotero, VScodium, SSH client, and many others.

To install the packages, simply enable the Copr repository:

sudo dnf copr enable thangckt/thang_foss
sudo dnf install ovito zotero  # or other packages

Or add repo file:

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --overwrite --from-repofile=https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/thangckt/thang_foss/repo/fedora-42/thangckt-thang_foss-fedora-42.repo
sudo dnf install ovito