>> Excellent decision! Do you happen to know the differences under the >> hood between beagle and tracker? Why does tracker do what it does with >> far less cpu power? I remember beagle had something to do with mono? > > Tracker supports less formats for metadata searches than Beagle and is > written in C while Beagle is written in mono. > > Rahul > Not trying to be pedantic here, but If I remember correctly, mono is one open source alternative to .net, isn't it? Mono is not a programming language. C# is. Other than fewer formats and different languages, do they use the same algorithms?