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Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Beagle - A Killer App?

I’m well aware of Apple’s Spotlight capabilities, but Beagle seems to be a “killer app” for Linux desktops. I’ve been using OpenSuse 10.0 for over a week now (I’m missing Gentoo/portage…) but anyway, the integrated Beagle search is absolutely spectacular. Within secods I can search my entire hard drive, email history, attachments, IM chats, websites… It’s better than Google on my desktop. Interestingly it has beat Windows to market with this type of search integration with the filesystem (WinFS when??)…

If you’ve never heard of or used Beagle, there’s a great review here.