A better, faster desktop search for Linux!

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 13 15:42:33 UTC 2007


Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>>> Too bad my nautilus is not tracker-enabled. I hope it will be in FC7
>>> and I hope tracker will come standard.
>> In Fedora 7, nautilus is indeed tracker enabled. It checks at runtime
>> whether tracker is installed and uses it in preference to Beagle.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
> 
> Excellent decision! Do you happen to know the differences under the hood 
> between beagle and tracker? Why does tracker do what it does with far 
> less cpu power? I remember beagle had something to do with mono?

Tracker supports less formats for metadata searches than Beagle and is 
written in C while Beagle is written in mono.

Rahul




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