Desktop Search Recommendation

[NoOp]

On 08/02/2010 01:20 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>> wjventer at gmail.com :
>>I am looking for an application that can search for words inside
>>documents.
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/
> 

Careful... tracker was removed as a default application a few rev's back
due to cpu/memory issues:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/132320
[Tracker consumes more then 90% of CPU even when indexing is disabled]
Note that it went from 'Main' to 'Universe' from Karmic to Lucid
respectively:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker
Bug reports:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker

This might be of interest:
<http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/254610-desktop-search-engines-compared>
It's a bit dated (Dec '09), but comments go into 2010, so probably worth
a read. Maybe recoll is worth a try?
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/recoll
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/recoll