Talk:MemTest86

Needs Split? (2013)

As of Sept 2013, both memtest86 and memtest86+ are in active development. I recommend a new section be created for memtest86+ within the current memtest86 page as memtest86+ is now clearly a fork and not a continuation of the original. Anyone have any opinions on this? →Kyosuke Aoki∙♫_talk∙^contribs♪ 20:48, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Well, that's less of a "split," which normally implies dividing the article into two or more separate ones, than it is an edit/reorganization. For reasons already discussed on this page, I think a true split would be a bad idea. But I think reorganizing the material within this article is a fine idea - "be bold" and go for it. GodaiNoBaka (talk) 23:21, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

But as of December 2013 the PassMark no-longer-Beta v5 release of memtest86 (that requires UEFI) is not open source: only the old v4 BIOS-based source code is open: See the History part of the Overview tab on http://www.memtest86.com for their statement of this. So a split seems appropriate and updates to the memtest86 (no +) description seem appropriate. --Marklmill (talk) 05:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Asbolutely. These are two different products, one open source, currently completely dead, working only for BIOS/MBR computers, the other one is only for EFI computers and it's actively developed. Artem S. Tashkinov (talk) 14:01, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

I'd argue the article is about at least 3 different programs at this point: The original MemTest86 for BIOS, which was GPL and is now dead, the PassMark MemTest86 which is the successor in brand name due to the purchase but is a rewrite with different license, and MemTest86+ which is a fork of the original and as such is the successor in terms of code, rather than name. It's one program and two of its successors, all of which do the exact same thing. PCMemTest is also mentioned as a temporary fork that was merged back. I don't think a split is really necessary until there is an article's worth of difference between them. ~2025-43555-25 (talk) 15:32, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

memtest86+ has a newer beta

memtest86+ released a new beta this month and is working towards a stable release with UEFI support. Should we update the article accordingly? SugaryHull (talk) 16:57, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

No. Wikipedia is not supposed to be a collection of release notes. --Wtshymanski (talk) 22:45, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

The good news is that the text and infoboxes are properly updated now. The bad news is that the screenshot is now hillariously out-of-date... (Virtual machine screenshots can't properly show the CPU temperature feature anyways -- anyone up for a image capture card?) --Artoria2e5 🌉 18:07, 4 September 2023 (UTC)