An open-source alternative, Beagle provides fast indexing and searching of all your files. Kevin of the LinuxForums.org content development team has used it, abused it and reviewed it.
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Member since:I have been using it with Ubuntu Breezy and it works quite well. Haven't really had problems with stability. The only problem I hear from people is the huge memory usage. I haven't experienced it myself with 0.12.
They have now added an indexing & search option under system prefrences of gnome which allows the user to set privacy settings (exclude directories from being indexed) or add other directories to the index list. By default only the home directory is indexed.
Member since:2005-06-29
Yes, but he wants inotify. Which AFAICT isn't enabled on Ubuntu either.
I think you'd be fine rebuilding with the inotify patch. But just build it as a second kernel boot option and then if it makes your nvidia drivers broken (which you may have to reinstall 
) then you can just boot back to your old kernel. I don't see why inotify would mess with anything that'd break video drivers though.
Also, you can use beagle without inotify. It's just not nearly as cool.
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I've been intrested in installing beagle, but heard the stock Fedora 4 kernel didn't have inotify on. If that is the case, does anyone know if I'll have problems with my Nvidia drivers if I rebuild my kernel? Would love to get Beagle on my system.
BTW, First time first post. :-)