>>> latest version is 10.6, get it at: >>> <https://www.memtest86.com/download.html> > This, Stefan, looks exactly like the memtest86 we've all been using for > nearly 30 years.
"we"? I sure haven't run that one, ever. I've run memtest86+ many times, yes, that's the one that "look like the old familiar one" for me (and presumably for others who stay away from proprietary code :) > Possibly under new management, and you may not agree with > the pro version costing money, The problem is not the money but the impossibility to know what it is you're running because you can't see the source code. > If you think the peanuts are free, check the price of the beer. Have you ever heard of Free Software (or maybe "open source")? :-) > And with all the caveats discussed in the faq list, I'll be a bit > spooky. Like running it w/o a net cable so it can't call home. Of course the `.com` version won't push all its own caveats in your face, that would go against its own commercial interests. That's another advantage of Free Software: it doesn't have a commercial incentive to hide its limitations in order to trick you into choosing over some competitor. IOW Free Software encourages honesty. BTW, you can also run a memory tester from the comfort of a running Debian machine, using the `memtester` package. Clearly it won't be able to check *all* the memory of your machine (e.g. it can't access the memory used by the kernel), but I've anecdotally found it "good enough" (the two times memtest86+ found a problem in one of my machines, `memtester` also found a problem on that machine). Stefan