Re: Desktop Search Engines
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 01:43:05 debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
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.
I am currently running recoll which seems the least intrusive.
I you want to use nepomuk, you are stuck with the strigi stuff.
Nepomuk, even with NO indexing, is a system-hawg. Ihave to manually renice it
just to make KDE4 usable.
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