Is Beagle a Good Thing?

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Fri Nov 30 00:21:44 UTC 2007


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On 11/29/2007 05:20 PM, Lux Zhang wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007 10:10 AM, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
>> Bruce Byfield wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:26 +0000, dexter wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> I don't recall ever starting beagled,
>>>>> and it does not seem to be listed by chkconfig.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>> What exactly does it do?
>>>>>
>>> "Teaches users bad habits," is my first response. Beagle, like Tracker,
>>> is designed for people who dump everything into the top level of their
>>> home directory, instead of organizing them into meaningful folders. If
>>> you've taken the time to organize yourself, then apps like Beagle and
>>> Tracker seem a large committment of resources just to accomodate people
>>> who won't learn good work habits. ;-)
>>>
>>>
>> Until you have too many folders, too many years of files and not enough
>> coffee. I use Google Desktop and I have added /etc to its index.  It
>> makes it very easy to find find, for example, all files that make
>> reference to "ath0" or contain "radeon".
>>
> 
> is Google Desktop available for linux?
> 
I thought this was a Linux mailing list.  http://desktop.google.com
It will show you the download appropriate for your OS.

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  Steve
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