Beagle (software)
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| Beagle | |
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 A screenshot of Beagle's UI |
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| Developer: | Beagle Team |
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| Latest release: | 0.2.13 / 20 November 2006 |
| OS: | Linux, other Unix and Unix-like systems |
| Use: | Search tool |
| License: | A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License |
| Website: | http://www.beagle-project.org |
- This article is about software. For other uses, see Beagle (disambiguation).
Beagle is a search tool for Linux, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, or Google Desktop under Microsoft Windows.
Beagle grew out of Dashboard, an early Mono based application for watching for and presenting useful information from your computer. It is written in C# using Mono and Gtk# and uses a port of Lucene to C# called Lucene.Net as an indexer. Beagle integrates with Galago for presence information.
Beagle is developed and maintained by Joe Shaw, with help from a growing open source Beagle community. Other notable past contributors include Jon Trowbridge, Robert Love, Nat Friedman, and David Camp.
[edit] Features
With Beagle you can search for:
- Applications
- Conversations (Gaim, Kopete and IRC logs)
- Documents (AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, pdf, txt, rtf)
- Emails and Address Book contacts (from Evolution, Mozilla Thunderbird, and KMail)
- Help files (Texinfo, man pages)
- Images (.png, .jpg)
- Music files (mp3, ogg, flac)
- Notes taken in Tomboy
- RSS feeds (via Blam or Liferea or Akregator)
- Source code (C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python)
- Web history (Firefox, Konqueror, Epiphany)
Beagle search tool also features:
- Instant indexing of new and modified files when running on a Linux kernel equipped with inotify.
[edit] See also
- searchmonkey - Gtk search application that searches files using regular expressions.
[edit] External links
- Beagle homepage and wiki
- Planet Beagle
- Nat's flash demos of Beagle
- Peagle-Project (PHP-Based Web-Frontend for Beagle)
| Desktop search software | |
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| Apple Spotlight • Beagle • GNOME Storage • Google Desktop Search • Kat • Windows Desktop Search |
