On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:37:06 +0100 Sean Carlos <sean.carlos@xxxxxxxxx> opined: > David Cary Hart wrote: > > Life was fine without it. Is there something I am missing or is > > the bloat more than the benefit? > > > > Beagle is a document indexing and retrieval tool for desktop > search. It is really useful if you have years of documents and > mail - you vaguely remember that you saw (or wrote!) something on a > particular topic, but you don't remember where. > > Think Google desktop on Windows or Spotlite on a Mac. > > If you don't have a lot of documents, it may not be useful. It is > definitely not for servers. > > Beagle is still young - and sometimes misbehaves. There are ways > to mitigate this, such as starting beagle without the indexer when > you're running a laptop on a battery. > > I've followed beagle since the original nrpms.net release for FC3, > documenting my experience at > http://www.antezeta.com/beagle-fedora.html . > Thanks. I'll try it again in the future for docs. I have a huge mail archive but I exported that to MySQL. -- Our DNSRBL - Eliminate Spam: http://www.TQMcube.com Multi-RBL Check: http://www.TQMcube.com/rblcheck.php Zombie Graphs: http://www.TQMcube.com/zombies.php -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
