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DrNick

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Registered: 2008-01-01

Posts: 14

indexing services - which one is recommended?

Hi,

I'm used to have a desktop-search available on my computer.
I do like what Google Desktop Search is offering on a windows machine @work
but I would prefer open source software if its comparable.

Any recomendations?
beagle, trackerd, strigi?
anything else?

I'm using kdemod but if the frontend is gtk it doesn't matter much for me.
I tried strigi (with lucene-backend) and couldn't get along. It was indexing for ages, cpu-intense
and it didn't work the way I thought it should work but maybe I just did something wrong.

Best regards,
Juergen

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

Does it *have* to have a GUI?  I've been enjoying using locate http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/fed … atedb.html.  It's quite fast.  Arch default is mlocate, but there's also rlocate available http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rlocate.

DrNick

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Registered: 2008-01-01

Posts: 14

Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

No, I don't need a GUI, command line is ok.
From what I know about locate is that you can find things via filename only. Or did I miss something?
I need an indexer which looks into file contents (the common ones: text, pdf, oofice in first place - msoffice would be nice but not essential)
also because filenames are often not very meaningful

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

Locate just does names.  Sorry about that.  Can anyone else help?

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

tracker is nice and pretty lightweight... works for me...
i didnt like beagle, affects the system performance more...

google desktop is also available for linux..

PJ

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 602

Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

locate is just enough for my own needs but I did however find 2 rather interesting threads in the forum. This is mostly because I remembered seeing something similar compared to this thread.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39627
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38533

fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

Tracker is nice, but also desktop specific. I'm actually a little disappointed in the gnome people for using tracker rather than adopting strigi (which the kde people made sure had no kde or desktop dependencies). Also, I'm unsure of why you would be having problems with strigi's performance, as it is fairly lightweight and is supposed to be less resource-intensive than other indexers.

PierreAd

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 19

Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

Tracker is nice, but also desktop specific. I'm actually a little disappointed in the gnome people for using tracker rather than adopting strigi (which the kde people made sure had no kde or desktop dependencies). Also, I'm unsure of why you would be having problems with strigi's performance, as it is fairly lightweight and is supposed to be less resource-intensive than other indexers.

Although Tracker is a part of the Gnome project, it seems to be quite desktop-independant ?

Desktop Neutral Design

    * Adheres to freedesktop thumbail spec.
    * Uses freedesktop technologies like DBus and XDGMime.
    * Uses XDG utils like xdg-open.
    * Implements the freedesktop specification for metadata (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/s … adata-spec).
    * Supports the WC3's RDF Query syntax for querying that metadata.

>> http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/features.html

Nicky726

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-02-15

Posts: 142

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Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

I quite get used to beagle (kerry-beagle) but as was mentioned it is kinda affective to system performance, but it has more functions. And there is beagle-no-gnome package in aur for kde-users.

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silvik

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From: Bucharest/Romania

Registered: 2006-11-08

Posts: 110

Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

i had the same dilemma last week... linux has so many apps for indexing...
never tried beagle... people say it's bloatware
i tried tracker for 2 days.. and i was dissapointed.. fast indexing but slow queries
I'm using recoll in community. great, stable, fast queries, automatic sort by relevance, seems very mature and it's desktop independent. the only thing I think it's missing is a filter for indexing chm files, but that's not a big problem for me. anyway, maybe soon someone will write a filter for this. it shouldn't be too hard.

Last edited by silvik (2008-05-07 22:45:02)

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 637

Re: indexing services - which one is recommended?

Does anyone use Kat? Looks quite interesting for KDE users (like me) Any opinions, thoughts, suggestions concerning this indexer?

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