[Slackbuilds-users] memtest86+ (5.01) has deadlink

[Richard Narron]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, Ched Ex wrote:

> Hello,
> memtest86+ v. 5.01 at the Slackware 15.0 branch has a dead link to the source.
> Was: https://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.tar.gz
> Now: https://memtest.org/download/archives/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.tar.gz
> MD5 is the same.

This is interesting. The file was renamed because there is a is a new version 6.0 in beta
testing.

I cc Kyle as he is the current maintainer of memtest86+.

The new 6.0 is created by merging the pcmemtest project and is
under active development.

https://github.com/martinwhitaker/pcmemtest

https://github.com/memtest86plus/memtest86plus

memtest86+ 6.00-b3 and works well on one of my machines that cannot run memtest86+ 5.01 or 4.20