Beagle 0.0.8 Released
I’m pleased to announce the release of Beagle 0.0.8.
Beagle 0.0.8 represents a huge step forward in stability, and contains fixes for
a multitude of bugs and memory leaks. This is the first version of Beagle that is
really suitable for everyday use. It also includes a brand new web services API to the
Beagle daemon, developed by KN Vijay.
0.0.8 is essentially identical to the version of Beagle that will be included
in SuSE 9.3.
OUR MANY URLS
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To download the 0.0.8 tarball, visit the Beagle web page at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle
There is lots of useful information about compiling and using Beagle on the
wiki:
http://www.beaglewiki.org
If you are running SuSE or the Novell Linux Desktop, we have an open carpet
server with snapshots and packages for all of the dependencies:
http://segfault.cam.novell.com
Joe Gasiorek writes a regular Beagle newsletter. You can read it at:
http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/Newsletters
Nat Friedman made some cool movies that demonstrate Beagle in action:
http://nat.org/demos
The latest gossip is available at:
http://www.planetbeagle.org
We still talk about Beagle on the dashboard-hackers mailing list:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
Jack Kerouac didn’t want anything to slow down his writing, so he typed the
first draft of "On The Road" onto a 120-foot scroll. That original
manuscript is now on a multi-year, multi-city tour:
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/kerouac-on-the-road-scroll.html
WHAT IS BEAGLE?
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Beagle is a tool for indexing and searching your data. It is in an early
stage of development and should be considered experimental. Beagle is
improving rapidly on many fronts, and should work well enough for
everyday use.
The Beagle daemon transparently monitors your data and updates the index
to reflect any changes. On an inotify-enabled system, these updates happen
more-or-less in real time. So for example,
* Files are immediately indexed when they are created, are re-indexed
when they are modified, and are dropped from the index upon
deletion.
* E-mails are indexed upon arrival.
* IM conversations are indexed as you chat, a line at a time.
Beagle uses the Lucene indexing system from the prodigious Doug
Cutting.
Best is a graphical tool for searching the index that the daemon creates.
Best doesn’t query the index directly; it passes the search terms to the
daemon and the daemon sends any matches back to Best. Best then renders the
results and allows you to perform useful actions on the matching objects.
Indexing your data requires a fair amount of computing power, but the Beagle
daemon tries to be as unobtrusive as possible. It contains a scheduler that
works to prioritize tasks and control CPU usage, based on whether or not
you are actively using your workstation.
via: dashboard hackers list
