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What distro do you use NI products on?
anshuljain
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09-18-2009 04:38 AM
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As the topic says- what distro(s) do you use NI (LV, VISA etc) products on...and why?
I use Mandriva 2008.1/2009.0 and Opensuse 11.0 on my laptop, but officially support Mandriva only.
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avtechmjc
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09-18-2009 07:01 AM
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I use Fedora 11 on all my systems, except the GPIB/LabView ones, which are stuck at Fedora 10 (because of the NI driver issues).
Fedora is nice because I tend to appreciate and use the cutting-edge improvements. selinux is also useful for securing systems relatively painlessly.
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09-18-2009 07:07 AM
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openSUSE 10.2
Vix
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In claris non fit interpretatio
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Using LV from 7
Using LW/CVI from 6.0
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In claris non fit interpretatio
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Using LV from 7
Using LW/CVI from 6.0
JoeFriedchicken
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09-18-2009 08:51 AM
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openSUSE 10.3 is my preffered distro for NI hardware, but I have Debian Lenny at home. In the office, I use a multi-boot machine with help from partimage to switch between a few different configurations for several distros (openSUSE 10.3, 11.0; RHEL 4.7, 5.3) when customer questions come up. Out of those, I like openSUSE 11.0 the least, since it shipped KDE 4 :-S
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JohnNavratil
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09-24-2009 02:10 PM
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I've used Fedora 7 and 9. Still trying to get 10 and 11 up.
The principle reason is comfort. My projects are not products and my comfort zone is with Fedora. Not a good reason, but the best one I have.
kcc1967
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09-24-2009 03:21 PM
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NI does not give Linux user much choose 😞
I prefer CentOS 5.x, but since I need NIScope/NIFgen, so I use OpenSuSE 10.3.
According to
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/35D2B5E483A001A18625716B005BE464?OpenDocument
There is not one distribution fully support all NI's products !!!
Guess what your customers will say ? They will use Windows if they use NI's products 😞
So, I use OpenSuSE 10.3, but sadly, I can't make any of my customers switch to Linux ... yet.
Regards
KC
Bryan
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09-25-2009 08:57 AM
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I use LabVIEW on Slackware Linux. I have used it on every version since about 10.0. This includes DAQmxBase, DAQmx, GPIB, and VISA. In my research I use it with a PCI-6110 DAQ board, 8-10 GPIB instruments, one RS-232 instrument, and a USB-6009. I am using Linux over Windows because of its stability - my experiment will eventually have to run for about 60 days without interruption and I'm not confident that Windows can do that. And I chose Slackware because I have been using it for about 10 years and I am very pleased with its stability. It took a little effort to get everything to install the first time because I had to populate the rpm database to satisfy all the dependencies but it runs very well.
