On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:13 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
>The new version of OS X, Tiger, will have a feature called Spotlight.  
>For a preview:
>
>   http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html
>
>I'm curious to know if any of the Linux desktops have (or are working 
>on) something similar.  I view Spotlight as an intelligent combination 
>of 'find' and 'grep'.

One word: Beagle.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/

For some impressive demos (requires flash plugin) check out:

http://nat.org/demos/

The most impressive demo IMHO is the Live Queries:

http://nat.org/demos/beagle-2.html

I'm running Beagle on my notebook (pretty simple to get running under
Ubuntu) and it's very impressive.  The indexer is very fast and when run
with an inotify kernel (which Ubuntu Hoary ships with) the indexer is
instantly notified when a files contents have changed and re-indexes its
contents.  




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