Beagle (software)
Developer(s) | Beagle Team |
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Final release | 0.3.9
/ January 26, 2009 |
Repository | |
Written in | C# |
Operating system | Linux, other Unix and Unix-like systems |
Type | Search tool |
License | A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License |
Website | www |
Beagle is a search system for Linux and other Unix-like systems, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists. It is not actively developed.[1]
Beagle grew out of Dashboard,
Beagle was developed and maintained by Joe Shaw with help from the open source community. Notable contributors included Jon Trowbridge, Robert Love, Nat Friedman and David Camp.
Features
Beagle searches the content of documents and associated metadata. Users can search for:
- Applications
- Archives () and their contents
- Conversations (Pidgin, Kopete and IRC logs)
- Documents ()
- KMail)
- Help files (man pages)
- Images (svg)
- Music files (mp3, ogg, flac)
- Notes taken in Tomboy, KNotes, and Labyrinth
- Akregator)
- Source code (C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python and more)
- Video files (through Totem)
- Web history (Epiphany)
Beagle can also index additional file types not natively supported using external tools through a configuration file.
On Linux, Beagle efficiently indexes documents using inotify without the need for frequent reindexing.
See also
- Desktop search
- List of desktop search engines
- Tracker, an actively developed search system
- Recoll
References
External links
- Official website
- Nat's flash demos of Beagle
- Peagle-Project Archived 2008-03-07 at the Wayback Machine (PHP-Based Web-Frontend for Beagle)
- Beagle++ - a NEPOMUK-based extension of Beagle for semantic desktopsearch