On Dienstag, 28. August 2007, Shaochun Wang wrote: > Hi guys: > > I wouldn't like, but i have to say that all current available linux > desktop search engines are rubbish. Keep reading, and you'll know why. > > 1. Beagle is full of buggy. Can you imagine what makes a software consumes > five hundrend Megabits of memory? On my system, this beast consumes > almost all of memory and makes my swap half full. Besides, it also > monopolizes CPU and makes my system unusable. When you search something, > beagle gives you some hints which is not good enough. Beagle can search > chm, pdf etc. files. > > 2. Tracker is boasting itself of consuming little system resource and > quick responding speed. It's true when compared with beagle and google > desktop search. It consumes about twenty five megabits on idle state and > gives you something in an acceptable time. But what can be called a > search engine when it returns nothing you want? In other hand, tracker > can't index chm file. > > 3. Google desktop search is heavy like beagle. It makes my system so > slow that I wonder whether it is the product of google. It is source > closed and only binary distributed. But this is unimportant, and who > will be interested in the source of such ugly software :-) > > In one word, there is no useable desktop search engine for linux. > > > -- > Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
they are called 'locate', 'find' and 'grep'. If you know how to use them, you'll have a lot of fun. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
