LabVIEW 8.2 Readme for GNU/Linux (x86)

August 2006

This file contains important last-minute information about LabVIEW 8.2 for GNU/Linux, including installation and upgrade issues, compatibility issues, and changes from LabVIEW 8.0. Refer to the LabVIEW Upgrade Notes for more information about upgrade and compatibility issues and for a complete list of new features in LabVIEW 8.2. Refer to the LabVIEW Release Notes for installation instructions. You can access both of these documents by selecting Help»Search the LabVIEW Help in LabVIEW and navigating to the Technical Support and Professional Services book.

Refer to the National Instruments Web site for the latest information about LabVIEW 8.2.

Supported Platforms
Known Issues
Additions to the LabVIEW Help
Documentation Corrections
Support

Supported Platforms

LabVIEW runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3, SuSE Linux Professional 9.1, and Mandrake Linux 10.0 or later. LabVIEW can run without hardware driver support on any other distributions that provide GNU C Library (glibc, also known as libc.so.6) Version 2.2.4 or later.

Refer to the LabVIEW Release Notes for a complete list of system requirements.

Known Issues

VIs, Express VIs, and Functions

Block Diagram Objects

Environment

LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming

Shared Variables

Miscellaneous

Additions to the LabVIEW Help

Documentation Corrections

Support

Refer to ni.com/linux for more information and resources related to LabVIEW for Linux systems.

Refer to the Linux Lab Project for more information about computer-based measurement and automation on Linux, including drivers for various National Instruments hardware. Note that these drivers are not developed or supported by National Instruments and significant work might be required to use these drivers with LabVIEW.


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