From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 31 15:42:14 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03C09C77F7 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:42:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from douhisi.pair.com (douhisi.pair.com [209.68.5.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7ECB31FC7 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:42:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from [10.2.2.1] (pool-173-48-121-235.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [173.48.121.235]) by douhisi.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2C2943F707 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:42:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <55E475D4.2080603@sneakertech.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:42:12 -0400 From: Quartz MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [(borderline) OT]: memtest question References: <55E3AFB4.9050607@hiwaay.net> <20150831015922.GA6804@milliways> In-Reply-To: <20150831015922.GA6804@milliways> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:42:14 -0000 > I had never heard of passmark memtest until you mentioned it, but it > appears to be the current version of memtest86, unless I am mistaken? Sorta. Way back when, there was only one version, "memtest86", which was an open source freeware thing. Like a lot of smaller open source projects, it languished for a few years with no updates. Enough people thought it was useful that it got forked into "memtest86+" which continued for a few years and became the defacto version. After some time, the original not-plus version got sold off to a company called PassMark who continued work on it (although it was clear from the get-go that they were using it as a money mill, since for the longest time they offered no freeware version for download). While PassMark has continued development on their version (memtest86) more or less continuously, memtest86+ is basically dead at this point. Although if you see my other email, if you're not lucky enough to have a machine that can boot their stupid UEFI version, you're effectively in 2014 forever... in which case neither version really counts as 'current'.