Beagle is a search tool for Linux, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, or Google Desktop under Microsoft Windows.

Beagle grew out of Dashboard, an early Mono based application for watching for and presenting useful information from your computer. It is written in C# using Mono and Gtk# and uses a port of Lucene to C# called Lucene.Net as an indexer. Beagle integrates with Galago for presence information.

Beagle is developed by David Camp, Robert Love and Joe Shaw, with help from a growing open source Beagle community.

Features

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With Beagle you can search for:

• Applications
• Conversations (Gaim, Kopete and IRC logs)
• Documents (AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, pdf, txt, rtf)
• Emails and Address Book contacts (from Evolution and KMail)
• Help files (Texinfo, man pages)
• Images (.png, .jpg)
• Music files (mp3, ogg, flac)
• Notes taken in Tomboy
• RSS feeds (via Blam or Liferea or Akregator)
• Source code (C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python)
• Web history (Firefox, Konqueror)

Beagle search tool also features:

• Instant indexing of new and modified files when running on a Linux kernel equipped with inotify.

External links

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• Beagle homepage and wiki
• Planet Beagle
• Nat's flash demos of Beagle
• Peagle-Project (PHP-Based Web-Frontend for Beagle)

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