Beagle (software)

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Beagle

A screenshot of Beagle's UI
Developer: Beagle Team
Latest release: 0.2.16 / 07 February 2007
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
Old UI for Beagle, code named Best
Old UI for Beagle, code named Best

Beagle is a search system for Linux and other modern, Unix-like systems, 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 uses a port of Lucene to C# called Lucene.Net as its indexer. Beagle includes a Gtk#-based user interface, and 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

Beagle searches the content of documents and associated metadata. With Beagle, users can search for:

Beagle can also index additional file types not natively supported using external tools through a configuration file.

Beagle instantly indexes documents on Linux systems equipped with inotify.

[edit] See also

  • searchmonkey - Gtk search application that searches files using regular expressions.

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