Beagle (from Beagle - dog breed, hound, bloodhound; pronounced / ˈbiːɡəl / ) - search system for Linux and other UNIX-like systems that allows you to search for documents, conversation logs, letters, contacts. In terms of functionality, Beagle resembles such programs as Spotlight , Home Search , Google Desktop and personalized Yandex search .
| Beagle | |
|---|---|
 Beagle user interface | |
| Type of | Local search engine |
| Developer | Beagle Team |
| Written on | |
| operating system | Linux and other UNIX-like systems |
| Latest version | 0.3.9 ( January 26, 2009 ) |
| condition | Development temporarily discontinued [1] |
| License | MIT and Apache |
| Website | http://www.beagle-project.org (inaccessible link) |
Beagle is written in C # using Mono . It uses the Lucene indexing system ported to .NET , as well as the Linux kernel inotify subsystem. Beagle contains a graphical user interface written using GTK # , but there is also a Kerry KDE interface.
Content
- 1 Features
- 2 notes
- 3 See also
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Features
Beagle can search documents and metadata (for example, ID3 tags in MP3s or comments on JPEG files). The following file types are supported [3] :
- Applications
- Archives ( ZIP , tar , gzip , bzip2 ) and their contents
- Conversations ( Pidgin , Kopete and IRC )
- Documents ( text , AbiWord , OpenOffice.org (sxw, sxc, sxi, etc.), OpenDocument , Microsoft Office , PDF , RTF , HTML )
- E-mail - letters and contacts (from Novell Evolution , Mozilla Thunderbird and KMail )
- Help files ( Texinfo , man (Unix command) )
- Images ( PNG , JPEG , TIFF , GIF , SVG )
- Music files ( MP3 , Ogg , FLAC )
- Notes by Tomboy , KNotes , and Labyrinth
- RSS Feeds (using Blam , Liferea or Akregator )
- Source code ( C , C ++ , C # , Fortran , Java , JavaScript , Pascal , Perl , PHP , Python , etc.)
- Video files (via MPlayer or Totem )
- Pages visited ( Mozilla Firefox , Konqueror , Epiphany )
Beagle can also index other file formats using third-party modules.
Notes
- ↑ Joe Shaw. Anybody working / supporting beagle? (English) (January 21, 2010). Date of treatment November 21, 2010. Archived June 5, 2012.
- ↑ The beagle Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page - 2006.
- ↑ Supported Filetypes - Beagle (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment July 12, 2007. Archived July 20, 2007.
See also
- Tracker
- Recoll
Literature
- Christian Nigel, Bill Ivienne, Jay Glynn, Carly Watson, Morgan Skinner. C # 2005 and the .NET 3.0 platform for professionals = Professional C # 2005 with .NET 3.0. - M .: "Dialectics" , 2007. - ISBN 978-5-8459-1317-3 .
Links
- Official site
- Linux Desktop Search Engines Compared / Linux.com 2009-12-01
- The best Linux desktop search tools / TuxRadar, 2010-01-08
- 6 of the best desktop search tools for Linux. Do desktop search tools spell the end of grep? / TechRadar, Jan 28, 2010