Beagle (software)

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Beagle

A screenshot of Beagle's UI
Developed by Beagle Team
Latest release 0.3.9 / 2009-01-26; 59 days ago
OS Linux, other Unix and Unix-like systems
Type Search tool
License A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License
Website http://www.beagle-project.org
Old user interface for Beagle, code named Best

Beagle is a search system for Linux and other such modern Unix-like systems, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, and Windows Search or Google Desktop (third party) under Microsoft Windows.

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

Beagle is developed and maintained by Joe Shaw, with help from a growing open source Beagle community. Other notable past contributors include Jon Trowbridge, Robert Love, Nat Friedman, and David Camp.

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Beagle searches the content of documents and associated metadata. With Beagle, users can search for:

Beagle can also index additional file types not natively supported using external tools through a configuration file.

Beagle instantly push indexes documents on Linux systems equipped with inotify.

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