What distro do you use NI products on?

[anshuljain]

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.

[avtechmjc]

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.

- Mike

[vix]

openSUSE 10.2

[JoeFriedchicken]

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

[JohnNavratil]

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]

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]

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.