Beagle (software)

Beagle

A screenshot of Beagle's UI
Developer(s)	Beagle Team
Stable release	0.3.9 (no further development at the moment) / January 26, 2009 (2009-01-26)
Operating system	Linux, other Unix and Unix-like systems
Type	Search tool
License	A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License
Website	(was - now parked domain) 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 Linux or Microsoft Windows. It is not actively developed.

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

Features

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

• Applications
• Archives (zip, tar, gzip, bzip2) and their contents
• Conversations (Pidgin, Kopete and IRC logs)
• Documents (AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, pdf, txt, rtf, html)
• Emails and Address Book contacts (from Evolution, Mozilla Thunderbird (header info only), and KMail)
• Help files (Texinfo, man pages)
• Images (png, jpg, tiff, gif, svg)
• Music files (mp3, ogg, flac)
• Notes taken in Tomboy, KNotes, and Labyrinth
• RSS feeds (via Blam or Akregator)
• Source code (C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, and more)
• Video files (through MPlayer or Totem)
• Web history (Firefox, Konqueror, Epiphany)

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.

See also

• Desktop search
• List of desktop search engines
• MetaTracker (software) another Search System in active development

External links

• Beagle homepage and wiki (was - now parked domain)
• Nat's flash demos of Beagle
• Peagle-Project (PHP-Based Web-Frontend for Beagle)
• Beagle++ - a NEPOMUK-based extension of Beagle for semantic desktop search