Do you use Beagle search?

[rahim]

I actually don't know I was under the impression it was updated at boot time.

Clem

I think it does. If you want to find out, just try Linux (almost any distro) on an old slow laptop with like 128MB of RAM, and as soon as you log in, the hard drive thrashes away indefinitely. The culprit? updatedb.

[nelamvr6]

I actually don't know I was under the impression it was updated at boot time.

Clem

I think it does. If you want to find out, just try Linux (almost any distro) on an old slow laptop with like 128MB of RAM, and as soon as you log in, the hard drive thrashes away indefinitely. The culprit? updatedb.

well, I don't know if that's true, but there is definitely a daily cron job to update the DB.

[Borat]

nope from me too, though the default Gnome Search for files, is great for my needs.

[shane]

slocate and simply organising my files well does the job for me...

i like beagle because there are times when your memory fails you and u need that helping hand... but losing the availabilty of system resources for that once-in-a-long-while circumstance is not worth it in my opinion.

I voted 'no'.

[shane]

The only thing I ever search of mine is email and for that I use the search feature in MS Outlook.

MS Outlook?!?! that just sent shivers down my spine... switch to Thunderbird dude... you use Linux... you should know better than to use Outlook... hehe.

"Who are these fools that can't find their things, and why do we let them use computers?"

lol!

Get rid of Beagle; make it an optional .mint install (either from online or maybe a menu option that activates an install script.)

perfectly reasonable...

[Fragadelic]

Hi,

I would like to know if people actually use Beagle (the integrated desktop search). Because beagle is resource-hungry and actually makes Linux Mint incompatible with a lot of low-memory/older computer specs, I am thinking of removing it.

Please use the poll to answer.

Thank you,
Clem.

lol - I've been removing it on all systems I install Mint onto. Not sure if you remember but I mentioned this a long time ago.

Good to see it may finally be gone.

[linuxviolin]

I don't use Beagle and I don't want use Mono so if it is removed I would be happy!:lol:

Moreover it is useless if one knows correctly arrange his PC...

[Rob Loach]

A solution you could use is give the user the option to install Beagle or not during Mint Linux installation, informing them that it can potentially slow down low end computers. Also, as Beagle progresses, performance quirks and issues will slowly reside. It is, of course, still a very young project.

I don't use Beagle and I don't want use Mono so if it is removed I would be happy!

.....Mono is truly an amazing tool. Not using Mono means cutting off your ability to use a huge amount of programs out there. Some of which weren't even originally designed to be run on Linux machines. It opens the market of "Linux Compatible" applications to a huge number.

[linuxviolin]

@Rob Loach

I'm sorry but Mono is an open-source clone of Microsoft .NET, a re-implementation of a Microsoft technology, a Windows-like approach of the computing. It is a Microsoft-inspired technology. Why should I be running something designed to match a standard created by Microsoft?!

[timmyflight]

No, I don't use beagle....
I automatically remove beagle after any install or reinstall,
as others mentioned before, it just drags down my system,
and is really not that useful for my purposes.

[alexander]

Code: Select all

$ sudo apt-get remove beagle

[shydy]

I don't use beagle because is slow and heavy during indexing.
Tracker is more light but slow like beagle. I search my file manually, but when I must search in a lot of file ........

[The Darkone]

This is the first package I've deinstall I use Catfish

[FewClues]

I voted for once in a blue moon. I rarely loose anything with home directory organized as it is. I appreciate it when its needed but its rare that its needed.

[dgittler]

MS Outlook?!?! that just sent shivers down my spine... switch to Thunderbird dude... you use Linux... you should know better than to use Outlook... hehe.

Thank you, but I don't find Thunderbird anywhere as near as full featured or as useful for organizing my emails nor archiving 10 years of communications. Thunderbird and Linux are good enough to run on my underpowered laptop for quick browsing, email checking, and basic writing, but I've found nothing better than Windows and the whole MS Office suite for features, ease of use, and unquestioned compatability.

[Adler]

dgittler,

Personally, I use Evolution, and if you have 10 years worth of .pst files I would find that amazing!

Evolution lets me pull into my e-mail account several storage areas.

Plus other features.

C'mon get with the idea of the Forum here. We help each other.

Adler

[dgittler]

. . . and if you have 10 years worth of .pst files I would find that amazing!

That I do! Everything is currently in the .pst format for Outlook 2007, but they've all been converted again and again through various formats going all the way back to Netscape Communicator 3.x (?), Eudora 3.01, and Outlook Express's Ancestor, Microsoft Internet Mail and News 1.0

[yoz-y]

no i don't use beagle search, actually removing beagle was one of the first things i did after installing linuxmint

[Adler]

Hi All,

Speaking about Search -- here comes Strigi @ http://strigi.sourceforge.net/

It is supposed to be part of KDE 4.0, which now is in Beta.

Adler

[scorp123]

Thank you, but I don't find Thunderbird anywhere as near as full featured or as useful for organizing my emails nor archiving 10 years of communications.

Funny, because I do exactly *that* ... I started with Linux in 1996 and for my modest & humble Internet needs back then I started out with the Netscape browser suite and Netscape Mail ... The funny point with Netscape products was that the next newer version was always downwards compatible with the previous releases. And so my mail and browser settings were over time upgraded: from some obscure Netscape 2.x something releases I can hardly remember they were taken over by Netscape 3.x, by Netscape 4.x .... and now I use Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 and ThunderBird .... and I still got all my mails 10 years back.

BTW, ThunderBird has some very nifty search functions and it allows you to store your searches (and the results thereof) as kind of a 'virtual folder' in your folder panel. Highly useful. And I am the living proof that this works tip top.