Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:17:16 -0400
Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
There are strigi packages in Sid.
> > > raju
> > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> > Celejar
> Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com>
Celejar
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