Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 22nd Apr 2006 16:45 UTC, submitted by Mitarai
"For years now, the Linux and open-source desktop has had the benefit of multiple software projects pushing forward to create nicer-looking, more useful environments. One of the most prominent of those projects, GNOME, recently underwent one of its twice-yearly updates, and the result is a compelling set of refinements. The newest version of GNOME, 2.14, now graces the desktop of Red Hat's Fedora Core 5 and other shipping and soon-to-arrive Linux distributions."
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2005-07-06
Tracker's memory usage (average of 6MB ram even after indexing 10GB of docs) and performance (barely noticeable impact on most CPUs) is reality - I challenge anyone to prove otherwise (I am the author of Tracker). I developed Tracker on a 1GHz P4 with only 256MB RAM and it runs like a dream.
For me, a good well behaved daemon should not have a noticable impact on the system (after all its invisible to users) and not consume way too many resources nor leak memory and therefore threaten system stability. I have made Tracker meet those goals as best as I can.
see page : http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker fopr more details (i know I need to add more info to that page).
Tracker is also a powerful metadata database and contextual linking engine and will be able to deliver first class object support out of the box. It will also be on trial as a common music database for rhythmbox in the near future.
Tracker is also freedesktop compliant and does not depend on gnome and I am quite keen in the near future to introduce it to other desktops like XFCE and its file manager Thunar (and who knows maybe KDE too?)
Edited 2006-04-23 12:47