LabVIEW 2009 SP1?

[Cepera]

Can someone give me a definitive answer as to what is the latest build of LV 2009? Some NI pages seem to indicate that SP1 has been released for Linux, but a support engineer earlier today told me that the latest is the f2 patch. We have a current SSP for LV for Linux; if SP1 has been released, how can we obtain it? The support staff does not seem to know about it...

Thanks,

Sergey

[AdamKemp]

Sergey,

LabVIEW 2009 SP1 is finished and has released to manufacturing, but the physical media has not shipped yet. Windows users can just download it and activate the license, but since we don't have licensing on Linux and OS X those users have to wait for the physical media. If you need it sooner then you can contact your local sales rep, and he or she can probably get you a copy.

Also, remember that SP1 comes with SSP, so if your subscription expired since 2009 released then you will need to renew it before you can get access to SP1. The f2 patch is free to everyone with a LabVIEW 2009 license.

[avtechmjc]

Does nikal build on current kernels (2.6.32) yet?

- Mike

[Cepera]

Adam,

Thanks for clarification. I think it would be a better approach to provide a password-protected download for active SSP subscribers, rather than make them wait for a CD to arrive. In fact, there is an area on NI servers for SSP subscribers, http://ni.com/src; in theory it should hold all resources to which the user is eligible under his SSP. In practice, it does list all the Windows upgrades available for download. Given that this area already requires login, it might as well offer downloads for modules that are available to subscribers and do not require registration.

Regards,

Sergey

[AdamKemp]

I'll pass that feedback on to some people who know more about it. Thanks.

[AdamKemp]

After a bit of thought, I realized one possible explanation for why we don't do that. Not every SSP customer has a license for LabVIEW on Linux. We would have to only give access to specific software which you have paid for, and we probably aren't set up to do that. As I mentioned, all of the Windows software uses licensing, so you can download the software and use a trial, but you have to activate it with a valid license to use it long term. That means we don't have to restrict which pieces of software Windows users can download. Without that licensing control on Linux we can't really do it the same way.

Still, it's valuable feedback, and I will still bring it up with some other people. Waiting for physical media can be pretty annoying.

Thanks again.