Brief Experience with ‘Beagle’ Desktop Search

Sep 7, 2005 in General Discussions

For some time I’ve been wanting to try out the ‘Beagle‘ desktop searching engine on my linux desktop.

There’s an article/review of it over on LinuxForums.

What is Beagle?

Beagle is a desktop search engine written by Nat Friedman (of Gnome/Ximian) fame. It is written in C# using Mono and Gtk#. The indexing is handled by DotLucene a C# port of the Lucene indexer.

A FAQ is available on their wiki.

It was quite trival to install on my Debian unstable box.

apt-get update
apt-get install beagle

beagle-settings
searchomatic

I haven’t really done anything beyond some simple email searches, but more or less it returned the results I would expect.

Surely, a step in the right direction.

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