Why do Linux live USBs ship a broken version of memtest86+ to this day?
@mavica_again
Because 5.01 was the last stable release, and came out in 2013.
The new 6.00 stable build just came out in October, so only relatively new live discs would have it.
Suppose they could have switched over to the 5.31 beta, but that still didn't come out until 2020. So even if they were willing to build a non-stable release into their disc, there was still a huge amount of time where they were stuck with 5.01.
@mavica_again
I get the frustration, but guess they just figured putting an old memtest on there was better than nothing (since proprietary version couldn't be distributed in its place).
Think the more interesting question is why it took almost a decade to get a new stable release of memtest86+. I don't know answer personally, but would love to know what was going on behind the scenes.
@tomnardi and yes i understand the disparity between proprietary PassMark memtest86 and memtest86+ but still