What ever happened to beagle?

tashirosgt · #1 25th January 2010, 06:23 AM

I see that there is still a beagle project on the web. Older versions of Fedora used to install it. Beagle was a pain in the neck, so I'm glad not to have it in FC 12. Is it likely to return to Fedora?

SlowJet · #2 25th January 2010, 07:11 AM

It is not in the repos for rahide. F13
Is your browser boken?

SJ

#3 25th January 2010, 08:20 AM

Beagle shoould be there but it just isnt installed as Default . if i remember it was dropped being installed as Default in F9? check in the repo's if its there which it should be

SlowJet · #4 25th January 2010, 08:49 AM

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=138374

SJ

tashirosgt · #5 25th January 2010, 04:02 PM

I'm not trying to ask a technical question. I'm curious about "cultural" matters. What was (or is) beagle? What was it supposed to do? Did it fail to do it? Did something else better come along that took it's place? Or did people decided it wasn't worth the trouble it was causing?

SomeDamFool · #6 25th January 2010, 04:47 PM

Beagle is an indexing and search tool, that I was glad to be rid of. For me it interrupted me by starting to index even when set to index only when the computer is idle, and was a huge resource hog. My cpu would run close to max for 15 minutes and on my laptop the temp would go up where I don't like to see it. As far as the search capabilities it didn't do a much better job than the default gnome search tool.

Beagle seems to have been replaced in Fedora by Tracker, another indexing and search too. It's not (quite) as big a resource hog as Beagle, and will run when idle if set to. Again though, I don't see the big advantage over the default search tool. If it's faster the difference isn't enough for my eyes to detect.

Mike