Desktop search tools for Linux

Desktop search tools for Linux

Omer Zak w1 at zak.co.il
Sun May 24 02:01:43 IDT 2009


I used Beagle as my desktop search tool, and eventually removed it
because I felt it does not do good job indexing my stuff (I have plenty
of free disk space so I was not worried by its storage requirements).

However I still need some desktop search tool.
The following article from 2007
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/desktop_search_tools_gnu_linux_tracker_recoll_strigi_deskbar
is part of a series about desktop search tools which were current at the
time.

What search tool would you recommend for use today?

My tradeoffs:
- Ability to retrieve all results of a search, rather than say the 100
most recent ones.
- Plenty of hard disk space, so it need not be economized.
- After initial indexing, the daemon (or whatever) for handling new
material should not load the PC too much.

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