The Beagle community (including Novell) seems unable to offer any
further support. Also, I found no evidence that Canonical has changed
its support for desktop search apps since introducing Ubuntu 10.04
yesterday. So after reviewing all of the information i could find
comparing strengths and weaknesses, I shut down the Beagle daemon and
installed Recoll.
So far, I am very pleased. Documentation is good. Installation was a
snap. Minor customization (e.g., setting a parm to enable Recoll to
work with the Firefox Beagle add-on) was easy. The whole conversion was
very uneventful. Creation of the initial index was reasonably fast
(under an hour for about 250,000 files.) The GUI is clean and clear.
All of the stuff that Beagle caught was there. And all of the stuff
that Beagle missed -- like Thunderbird message content -- showed up.
Compare Recoll news...
* 2010-01-05 : a 1.13.04 is out. It fixes a nasty bug (broken stemming) in
1.13.02.
* 2010-01-29 : the full Recoll source repository is now hosted on
Bitbucket, along with a Wiki and an issues tracking system. Hopefully, this new
channel for reporting bugs and make suggestions will increase the feedback
rate...
* 2010-01-05 : a 1.13.02 is out. It brings some nice improvements and new
functions. Please try it and report any problems.
* 2009-12-10 : 1.12.4 is out. It fixes a problem in the preview window
search function (qt4 only).
* 2008-05-22 : we now have a mailing list:
o Subscription management
o Archives
... to Beagle news:
21 Jan 2010 Beagle status: Beagle isn't in active development. It is
getting some occasional maintenance done by Novell.
26 Jan 2009 Beagle 0.3.9 released.
15 July 2008 Beagle 0.3.8 released.
7 Jun 2008 Added initial support for indexing removable medium.
21 May 2008 Added read-only RDF overlay on Beagle index. This RDF store
can handle RDF queries and supports different query formats like SPARQL, N3
etc.
14 May 2008 Kio-beagle ported to KDE4.
The future is Recoll.
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