Re: Desktop Search Engines
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:30, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:43, Rick <rick0009@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine,
>> since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files,
>> would like to index all, including metadata...
>
> I have not used any of them extensively, but from playing around
> with Beagle and Tracker, I prefer Tracker. Tracker is supposed
> to be lighter on resources than Beagle. Tracker also does not
> depend on Mono, if you care about that sort of thing.
>
> Another option is Strigi, which has community connections to
> KDE (but it does not have KDE or QT dependencies).
Correction, the Strigi daemon does not have QT or KDE
dependencies. The default client, however, is in QT.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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