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- OHiggins, on 10/14/2007, -0/+30You may use Linux and the OpenOffice suite, but that doesn't mean the rest of the world does. A lot of people may be taking in files that were made in MS Offfice to read and edit in OpenOffice.
- RoboDonut, on 10/15/2007, -3/+22It's cool to see that they're supporting Linux, but "Google Desktop" has always seemed like a complete waste of resources to me...
- sundancekid503, on 10/14/2007, -3/+20People with jobs?
- theaceoffire, on 10/14/2007, -0/+16One more option (And will probably end up being a good one).
^_^ This is why I like linux, because it has choices. - mercurysquad, on 10/14/2007, -3/+16Sometimes it gets annoying ... 40 unfinished OSS projects instead of 2 full-featured working programs.
- wisam, on 10/14/2007, -0/+11A third option, although proprietary won't do us harm specially if its a well designed piece of software by Google.
- moocow1452, on 10/15/2007, -9/+16Office Documents? On Linux?
Who exactly was requesting this? - Gavagai80, on 10/15/2007, -1/+7Well this isn't an OSS project, so... nice to see proprietary choices.
- inactive, on 10/14/2007, -1/+7Most requested? Indexing Pidgin log files like beagle does.
- acceleriter, on 10/14/2007, -0/+6Has anyone given this software a clean bill of health that it does *not* call home with information about your documents (including metadata)? I considered running a similar desktop indexer, X1 Search, in the past, but, like GDS, it insists on calling home. Am I the only one that finds the idea of an application that's keyword indexing every file on one's hard disk performing encrypted communications with the mother ship?
- wisam, on 10/13/2007, -0/+5Yes, sometimes. But not this time. In this case we have two fairly mature open source projects. Writing a desktop search application isn't an easy thing. Thankfully the people behind the two projects, beagle and tracker, did a good job. On the other hand, we've got tens of music players/jukeboxes. Non of which satisfy my simple needs of a musikCube alternative. Rhythmbox is the closest as it gets. That's where too many OSS projects is a bad thing.
- Protoss, on 10/13/2007, -0/+4True, I suppose 'competition' will give the developers of the other 2 projects more ideas.
- wisam, on 10/13/2007, -1/+5My bad. It's "it's".
- GMorgan, on 10/14/2007, -0/+4Why would someone assume that the Google option must be the best?
Competition of any kind is good. Even from proprietary companies. - miyamotofreak, on 10/14/2007, -1/+5Tracker seems to be the best choice.
- GruntboyX, on 10/14/2007, -0/+4just another thing to slow down my computer.
- arjie, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Does it have a "human-readable" version? Like the Creative Commons licences do? You might want to look around a little.
- Chandon, on 10/14/2007, -0/+3Apparently the sort of people who install Google Desktop on their Linux boxes. It doesn't surprise me terribly much that those groups intersect.
- antitab, on 10/13/2007, -0/+3Yes, because more choices are definitely a bad thing.
- Shide, on 10/14/2007, -1/+4It's great to see Google continuing to support Linux, but they'll have a tough time getting people to use their desktop search when there are already quite a few alternatives available out of the box, which in my opinion (and my limited testing of Google Desktop) work better.
Google have said numerous times that they make heavy use of Linux internally on desktops, so I suspect that this port was mainly for their own users and while they were at it they decided to release it for the rest of us :) - inactive, on 10/15/2007, -1/+4Once (the bits that aren't the same as v2, anyway.) That way I know what I'm agreeing to with a huge number of pieces of software. Reading Google's ToS applies to, what, one piece of software I'm likely to use? Economies of scale are analogous.
- Gavagai80, on 10/13/2007, -1/+3Tried Beagle and found it completely useless, since it wouldn't let me search recent changes, only old stuff. Though google desktop may suffer the same problem, I'll try it to find out.
- Huwawa, on 10/13/2007, -0/+2Try rlocate (rlocate.sf.net). It has a kernel module that waits for files to be created, so it's "always up to date".
- adila01, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2I am sure Google is working on it. It is definitely their most requested feature.
- AntiTheist, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2it's not enough that they keep the history of your searches for years? you want to let them be part of your desktop? what are you, RETARDED?
- Onestone, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2It doesn't. Do you even know what "wildcard search" means?
- inactive, on 10/14/2007, -3/+4What license do they distribute this under?
- mysurface, on 10/18/2007, -0/+1Seriously, when I look into top, it shows gdlinux ( google desktop command name), it uses less CPU usage, but it DOES slow down my other apps. And it doesn't open the result files with the correct app, instead it open it all at firefox browser....
I prefer tracker search tool compared to gdlinux. - Chandon, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1It generally refers to searches with wildcard characters. This works for me in tracker.
- inactive, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Doubt it.
- Onestone, on 10/13/2007, -0/+1Tracker still doesn't support wildcard search.
- Onestone, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1But does it return the expected results? The answer is "no".
- MattBD, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1Still no sign of desktop widgets, though.
- Malachai, on 10/13/2007, -1/+2Choice.
- inactive, on 10/14/2007, -7/+8I went to download the .deb, and was directed to all 4,585 words of the "Google Terms of Service". Do you expect me to read this? Do you expect me to understand it? I pressed CANCEL, if and when I need Google Desktop, I will read it all, or maybe for some bed time reading for fun!
- MattBD, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1I really hope so - there's so many widgets I want on my Kubuntu desktop!
- JiggNJive, on 10/13/2007, -0/+1The thing with Beagle is that it doesn't index Thunderbird mail very well. GD is also better when it comes to how much system resources it uses and how fast it indexes your content.
- inactive, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1No, I actually read that one.
- footissimo, on 10/13/2007, -1/+1Pfft, well perhaps I should be the only one to say a 'yay' - I use Google Desktop on Ubuntu and find it quite useful whilst not being intrusive. It does what it's supposed to without being a hog like beagle is (sorry, but...).. May try tracker in the future, but for the time-being.
Having said that, to echo Moocow...office documents? Most requested? - jopsen, on 10/13/2007, -1/+1What makes you think it wont do harm... Newbies hearing of Google Desktop Search on Linux, thinking it's the best solution because Google made it... I haven't tried it, but I don't think it features deskbar integration, nautilus integration and file open integration... Does it even feature as many formats as beagle... Or does it run as fast as tracker?
(I wouldn't expect either... I must say that I too have yet to try a proprietary program thats stable)
From where I see it, it could give somebody a bad impression of Linux, Google or both... - stalefries, on 10/14/2007, -3/+3The GPLv3 has 5688 words. Have you refused to read it as well?
- EvilDude, on 10/14/2007, -1/+1I run it on my laptop, and have not noticed any slowdown after the initial indexing. Now, it's instant access to all my email by keyword, and I can search for files without having to go through the painful windows search way. I used to use it a lot to start applications, but launchy has taken over that now.
- wezux, on 10/14/2007, -0/+0Google + Linux = front page
- carrett, on 10/14/2007, -0/+0I never understood the need for these giant search applications. Then again, I keep my music, email, and files fairly well organized. It's not that hard...people are so lazy sometimes it's amazing.
- Chandon, on 10/14/2007, -2/+1Just tried it. Worked for me.
- crossers, on 07/23/2008, -1/+0oh cool see Google continuing to support Linux.
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http://www.chasr.org/ - patpi, on 10/14/2007, -3/+1I use MicrosoftWord2003 with CrossOverOffice on my Kubuntu. It works fine. OO.org IMO sux, I'm waiting for Kofice 2.0
- Protoss, on 10/14/2007, -11/+6I think this is pretty much useless. Linux has Beagle and Tracker, which work pretty well.
- openguru, on 10/13/2007, -7/+1agreed.
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