[NTLUG:Discuss] opensuse and Beagle

[Kenneth Loafman]

Ted Gould wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 08:42 -0500, David Simmons wrote:
>> maybe I'm missing it.....what's so hard about:
>>
>> sudo find /
>> -name "missing.thing"
>>
>> and no indexing
>> required?....may have to wait a little longer...but for those occasional
>> times - seems like the less of two evils?
> 
> You're making the huge assumption that you know the name of thing.  An
> indexer (tracker, beagle, the KDE one I can't spell) looks inside files
> and understands file formats so that you can do more complex queries.
> Something like "Where is the document that I wrote in the last month
> that was talking about oil futures?"

Whatever the indexer's name, it causes the same problems as Microsoft's
indexer in that it gets loaded and started by default, and sucks up an
unreal amount of CPU and system resources in certain cases, especially
noticeable when you really need system response.

It seems we could have learned what NOT to do from Microsoft... but
those that refuse to study history are doomed to repeat, and take the
rest of us down with them.

...Ken