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Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

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On 11/28/2016 9:24 PM, Dave Thayer wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:26:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I went to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ looking for test utilities.
>> The closest heading I found was "Utilities"
>> [https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/].
>> The only relevant entry I found there was "memtester (4.3.0-3)".
>> I did not find "memtest86+" which I've used many times [It was listed under
>> "Similar packages:" on https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/memtester].
>> I found nothing for testing hard disks or video subsystems <closest being
>> monitor resolution tests>.
>
> p.d.o has a pretty good search function, this should point you in the
> right direction: <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=memtest>

That search function is not suitable. Back in the days when a 
library's catalog was a physical set of card-files there were 
typically three "file cabinets" - one each for title, author, and 
subject cards. By analogy, p.d.o only has information from "title 
cards". I need a subject index.

Thank you.

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Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-28 13:30 +0100
  Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Dave Thayer <debian1633317.dmthayer@recursor.net> - 2016-11-29 05:00 +0100
    Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 13:10 +0100
      Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-11-29 13:10 +0100
        Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 13:40 +0100
          Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-29 14:00 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 15:20 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 15:40 +0100
          Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Verde Denim <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:10 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 15:40 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-29 16:00 +0100
              A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in  official Debian repositories] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available  in official Debian repositories] Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-12-01 00:40 +0100
                Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available  in official Debian repositories] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-01 04:50 +0100
      Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-29 18:40 +0100

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