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Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian



On Monday 09 July 2007 10:17 am, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:35:34 -0400
>
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> > Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > > Sorry if I'm ignorant but,
> > >
> > > How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other
> > > open-source data indexing projects out there?
> >
> > Actually I did not know that there are open source alternatives available
> > for google-desktop-search. Only upon reading Matthew Poer's email, I came
> > to know that there is such a thing called beagle. Anyway, I am trying it
> > out now and hope it works. I also prefer open source alternatives to
> > closed source software as long as they efficiently perform the job and
> > provide all the features.
>
> I have briefly tried recoll, and I really like it so far, although I
> haven't yet used it extensively (there's a debian package).  You can
> also check out strigi.

Note the debian packages for recoll is in testing. There is no debian package 
for strigi.

>
> > raju
> >
> > --
> > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
>
> Celejar

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