beachdude
Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:42:14 pm
I have done some searching of these forums with no results returned. I've read most of the topics on the first pages, clicked through and read most of the links. Fascinating stuff.
I'm a bit of an old-timer who cut his computer chops on a Commodore Vic20 and DOS 1.1. So I'm ok with a command line interface ... will be better once I get a firm handle on this one too.
I work in a Cloud Call Center with thousands of other Work-At-Home agents taking inbound calls for anything from P90X to Hurricane Sandy Donations and WWE PPV support. The company boasts roughly 30,000 agents these days. Many have aging systems and legacy hardware that, with the pending exodus of WinXP powered machines from the realm of viable automation choices, are left looking for options to continue to earn the income that many need and rely on. Most or many do not have the extra money to spend on new hardware. Enter me.
As a regular contributor to our company Tech Forum and with a background in telephony and skills-based call center technology, I began to search for an alternative to WinXP and Windows in general ... and ... based on my research, I have settled on Zorin OS8, primarily because of it's similarity to the Windows desktop. I have been playing on it for about a week and love it myself ... a lot!
Our inbound call center platform works well on Z OS8 too ... but there are a few things that are holding me back ... albeit I'm pretty sure only temporarily though. And this is where I could use some help and advice. For a small but important number of the older 'learning modules' in the call center onboarding and continuing education center we need IE8. I know, right?
After spending the weekend 'under the hood', I still have not been able to get IE to run well, either via P0L, Crossover or any WINE-type interface ... don't know another way to try as I'm unable to know even which version of Ubuntu ZOS 8 is derived from nor am I clear that even if I knew, I could choose the appropriate Ubuntu package and then install it or even if THAT would work if I did
::sigh:: I also need a version of Flash that works with IE.
So, for now, I'd like to know:
How can I get some IE iteration (8 or above) to run on ZOS 8 and what Ubuntu release is ZOS 8 based upon and does the appropriate Ubuntu software run on it?
There is also the Silverlight/Pipelight issue which I read about here, tried the install which failed ... probably because I pasted the install commands along with the colons into the terminal. Sooo ... I suspect I can fix that.
I have tried to update my WINE but it continues to revert to the same version that came with ZOS 8. No clue why.
Here is the system I'm trying all this stuff on: hard-wired Compaq Presario 2017cl desktop, 2.8 gig Athlon 3800 single core socket AM2 (dual core on the way), 3 gigs DDR2, single 200 gig SATA HDD, 1 gig AMD graphics card (working fine) only partitions are what Zorin has put on there as I told it to wipe XP.
The drive initially had a protected partition (D:) for XP Media Center Pro and updates ... so I am uncertain if that may not be part of the issue with making IE8 run. Conflicts? Don't know. Any advice would appreciated. Looking to you folks ... thanks in advance.
I'm a bit of an old-timer who cut his computer chops on a Commodore Vic20 and DOS 1.1. So I'm ok with a command line interface ... will be better once I get a firm handle on this one too.
I work in a Cloud Call Center with thousands of other Work-At-Home agents taking inbound calls for anything from P90X to Hurricane Sandy Donations and WWE PPV support. The company boasts roughly 30,000 agents these days. Many have aging systems and legacy hardware that, with the pending exodus of WinXP powered machines from the realm of viable automation choices, are left looking for options to continue to earn the income that many need and rely on. Most or many do not have the extra money to spend on new hardware. Enter me.
As a regular contributor to our company Tech Forum and with a background in telephony and skills-based call center technology, I began to search for an alternative to WinXP and Windows in general ... and ... based on my research, I have settled on Zorin OS8, primarily because of it's similarity to the Windows desktop. I have been playing on it for about a week and love it myself ... a lot!
Our inbound call center platform works well on Z OS8 too ... but there are a few things that are holding me back ... albeit I'm pretty sure only temporarily though. And this is where I could use some help and advice. For a small but important number of the older 'learning modules' in the call center onboarding and continuing education center we need IE8. I know, right?
After spending the weekend 'under the hood', I still have not been able to get IE to run well, either via P0L, Crossover or any WINE-type interface ... don't know another way to try as I'm unable to know even which version of Ubuntu ZOS 8 is derived from nor am I clear that even if I knew, I could choose the appropriate Ubuntu package and then install it or even if THAT would work if I did
::sigh:: I also need a version of Flash that works with IE. So, for now, I'd like to know:
How can I get some IE iteration (8 or above) to run on ZOS 8 and what Ubuntu release is ZOS 8 based upon and does the appropriate Ubuntu software run on it?
There is also the Silverlight/Pipelight issue which I read about here, tried the install which failed ... probably because I pasted the install commands along with the colons into the terminal. Sooo ... I suspect I can fix that.
I have tried to update my WINE but it continues to revert to the same version that came with ZOS 8. No clue why.Here is the system I'm trying all this stuff on: hard-wired Compaq Presario 2017cl desktop, 2.8 gig Athlon 3800 single core socket AM2 (dual core on the way), 3 gigs DDR2, single 200 gig SATA HDD, 1 gig AMD graphics card (working fine) only partitions are what Zorin has put on there as I told it to wipe XP.
The drive initially had a protected partition (D:) for XP Media Center Pro and updates ... so I am uncertain if that may not be part of the issue with making IE8 run. Conflicts? Don't know. Any advice would appreciated. Looking to you folks ... thanks in advance.
