Re: Do I Really Want Beagle??

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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.
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