On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm looking of a desktop search utility that can to search mainly within > (inside) documents, mostly "pdf" and "odt" files, but not limited to > these ones (if it also could index Icedove e-mails would be great). > > I was using Beagle (not so long time ago) under openSUSE and was pretty > good for this task but I don't know about any other options available -if > any- under Debian (Lenny). > > Beagle is quite good but it makes use of Mono libraries and I have read > some disappointments about this (not only regarding Mono license but also > for making the system to run a bit slow wile indexing and to be some > resource consuming). > > So, what would be your recommendations for this task? Any preferred tools > for this? I've been using recoll for a while and I rather like it. It's not flashy, but it works quite well. Some possibly useful links: http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Comparison_of_desktop_search_software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Desktop_search_engines Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org