On 8/28/07, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/28/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Shaochun Wang ha scritto: > > > Hi guys: > > > > > > I wouldn't like, but i have to say that all current available linux > > > desktop search engines are rubbish. Keep reading, and you'll know why. > > > > > > 1. Beagle is full of buggy. Can you imagine what makes a software > > consumes > > > five hundrend Megabits of memory? On my system, this beast consumes > > > almost all of memory and makes my swap half full. Besides, it also > > > monopolizes CPU and makes my system unusable. When you search > > something, > > > beagle gives you some hints which is not good enough. Beagle can > > search > > > chm, pdf etc. files. > > > > > > 2. Tracker is boasting itself of consuming little system resource and > > > quick responding speed. It's true when compared with beagle and google > > > desktop search. It consumes about twenty five megabits on idle state > > and > > > gives you something in an acceptable time. But what can be called a > > > search engine when it returns nothing you want? In other hand, tracker > > > can't index chm file. > > > > > > 3. Google desktop search is heavy like beagle. It makes my system so > > > slow that I wonder whether it is the product of google. It is source > > > closed and only binary distributed. But this is unimportant, and who > > > will be interested in the source of such ugly software :-) > > > > > > In one word, there is no useable desktop search engine for linux. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your opinion. Next time write it on your own blog instead of > > wasting our time. > > > > m. > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > That was a bit harsh, don't you think? Judging by his grammar and spelling > errors, English doesn't look like his first language, so cut him some > slack. He was trying to convey why he didn't like the current search > offerings, and if someone could point him in the direction of another one. > > And the answer, from these posts, seems nothing will suit him. I do > however, say to you, OP, both Windows and OSX have better search features. > That said, it looks like the newest version of Beagle, 0.2.18, was > released yesterday. Looks like there are a lot of bug fixes in this release > [1]. Looks like the newest version isn't in Portage yet (not surprising), > but you can always file a bug [2] to get a version bump -- although I would > wait about a week or longer before you bother the maintainer. > > [1] Release Notes: > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/beagle/trunk/beagle/NEWS?view=markup > [2] BugZilla for Gentoo: http://bugs.gentoo.org/ > > -- > - Mark Shields
Just to note, my opinion of Windows and OSX having better search features are entirely subjective and in some cases, anecdotal. There's no point in justifying such a stance, in this case, for me. -- - Mark Shields
