On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 10:35 +1100, Roger Lainson wrote: > I've been using Beagle for a couple of years in a rather different > way, which I guess is essentially GNOME-free. That is, I've been using > beagled running on our small company server, with a couple of > home-grown PHP pages to invoke beagle-query and parse its output. > Works very well indeed, with a low server load - the point about > beagled having the kernel tell it when a file is modified is a very > important one, I think.
I think the server space for indexing is already owned by Lucene. That is what most admins I talk to use on the server side. I haven't dipped by toes in that water yet. For non-text you have Solr <http://lucene.apache.org/solr/> > Unfortunately I can feel the cold breeze of Beagle's demise. Can > anyone suggest an alternative for my purposes? Better still, would it > be feasible to hive off beagled (and perhaps the web interface) as a > server-oriented utility, for which there might be a significant > demand? It certainly seems possible. I toyed with the idea once, but I don't think you'd hit any kind of critical mass [and, personally, my time is already consumed by other cool projects]. > I came to Linux server (actually Ubuntu) to get away from Windows, and > beagled was the best replacement I could find to MS indexer which > plods away in the background - I can't be the only small system admin > to want to do this! Unfortunately I'm a tinkerer, not a developer. _______________________________________________ dashboard-hackers mailing list dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers