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

[Kyle Guinn]

On 9/9/22, Richard Narron <richard at aaazen.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the feedback!  I will try to get this updated when I get a
chance, likely next week or later.  If anyone wants to update the link
in the meantime, feel free to do so.

-Kyle