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To all things there is a season. Jeff Kodosky helped found National Instruments and invented LabVIEW. He inspired hundreds of us who shapes its code across four decades. But Jeff says it is time to change his focus. Today, NI announced Jeff’s retirement. He will probably always be noodling around on LabVIEW concepts and will remain open to future feature discussions. But his time as a developer is done. Maybe you didn’t know that? Jeff still slings code, from big features to small bugs. He’s been a developer most of the years, happy to have others manage the release and delivery of his software. I spent over two decades working at his side. He taught me to look for what customers needed that they weren’t asking for, to understand what problems they didn’t talk about because they thought the problems were unsolvable. And he built a team culture that made us all collaborators instead of competitors. Thank you, Jeff, for decades of brilliant ideas and staying the course to see those develop into reality. Your work will continue on as one of the key tools on humanity’s expansion to Mars.

TL;DR - Download the Linux Community Edition 2021 SP1 ISO and extract it. In the "INSTALL" and "utils/install_helpers.sh" scripts in the extracted files, replace all instances of "ubuntu" with "ubuntu|zorin". For those who don't mind a little bit of reading (I can be long winded): I don't know if anyone has tried this yet, but I figured I would post it for archival purposes and future LAVA searches. For those who don't already know, LabVIEW 2021 SP1 supports Ubuntu 18 and 20. It's worth noting, however that the VI Analyzer Toolkit is not supported on Ubuntu according to the "README.html" file that's included with the installation media. For grins, I tried installing it on Zorin 16 simply by running the normal "sudo ./INSTALL" command, but was met with "Sorry, LabVIEW is not currently available for this O/S and architecture...." In order to get LabVIEW 2021 SP1 to install on Zorin 16, just open the "INSTALL" and "utils/install_helpers.sh" scripts with root privileges, and search and replace all instances of "ubuntu" with "ubuntu|zorin", then run the "INSTALL" script as usual. My assumption is that this may work for all distributions based on Ubuntu Bionic or Focal by adding the conditional for what is returned with the following commands. In the example below "zorin" was returned: $ . /etc/os-release $ echo ${ID} zorin Disclaimer: Because ZorinOS isn't listed as an officially supported distribution, assume that it is not supported by NI.