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There are better options to see your memory usage; however it seems `free` is more attune to creating the confusion I’m attempting to quell here. That said, see the Redhat docs about /proc/meminfo
Other commands to use to see memory usage

$ vmstat -aS M #see the “inactive” column for a rough “free” idea.

The real answer
There’s no reason to clear what’s in RAM until you need more space to write to it.

Now that we have our LLMP Stack setup, we can setup our WordPress Blog. Because Lighttpd does not use a .htaccess file like Apache does, we need to create rewrite rules and put them in the Lighttpd configuration. These are the easiest rewrite rules out there as there is only one line.
All you have to do is add the following line to your vhost.
server.error-handler-404 = “/index.php”
So lets create our vhost. I prefer to create each vhost in a seperate file. We are going to create the vhost for chrisjohnston.org. To …

I have wanted to switch from Apache to Lighttpd for my web server for quite a while. In this article I am going to go over my installation of Lighttpd, MySQL with phpmyadmin, and PHP5 on Ubuntu 8.10. In a future article I will go over setting up my sites to run on Lighttpd. I am running a 256mb ‘slice’ from Slicehost. For the basic setup of my slice I followed Slicehost’s Ubuntu Intrepid Setup Tutorial.

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 for testing. Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 includes the following new features:

Available in 54 languages
Private Browsing Mode
Easier clearing of recent history
Support for web worker threads
New TraceMonkey JavaScript engine
Improvements to the Gecko layout engine
Removed the new tab-switching behavior due to user feedback
Supports and elements, W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Ubuntu has reciently announced the release schedule for the new version of Ubuntu (9.04) due in April of 2009. As I mentioned previously, Mark Shuttleworth has identified 3 major goals of Jaunty. Those goals being faster boot times, weblications, and full integration with Bazaar. The schedule is as follows:
November 20, 2008 » Alpha 1 Release
December 18, 2008 » Alpha 2 Release
January 15, 2009 » Alpha 3 Release
February 5, 2009 » Alpha 4 Release
February 26, 2009 » Alpha 5 Release
March 12, 2009 » Alpha 6 Release
March 26, 2009 » Beta Release
April …

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) has been out for 3 days now, so I figure it’s time to look into the future at Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope. Below are a few of the goals that have been set for this next version of Ubuntu.