Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

[Boaz Rymland]

Omer Zak wrote:

> The huge files (index and log files) were not a problem for me.  I set
> aside a separate multi-GB partition for Beagle's use, directing it to
> use it by an appropriately planted symbolic link.
>   
Even if I had lots of diskspace I still wouldn't have liked the fact 
that beagle waste so much of it and more over, the fact that I need to 
track its disk usage. But, its a matter of taste of course.
> I use those "traditional" command line tools, too.
>
> The problem is that they are very slow when I want to search significant
> parts of my PC's filesystem.  Therefore I need a search tool which I
> would expect to index the information for easier subsequent retrieval.
>   
Right, searching over large subtrees of your FS can be quite slow. There 
are probably even more downsides to command line tools. Well, nobody's 
perfect :-)

Boaz.