[NTLUG:Discuss] opensuse and Beagle

[Ted Gould]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 08:42 -0500, David Simmons wrote:
> maybe I'm missing it.....what's so hard about:
> 
> sudo find /
> -name "missing.thing"
> 
> and no indexing
> required?....may have to wait a little longer...but for those occasional
> times - seems like the less of two evils?

You're making the huge assumption that you know the name of thing.  An
indexer (tracker, beagle, the KDE one I can't spell) looks inside files
and understands file formats so that you can do more complex queries.
Something like "Where is the document that I wrote in the last month
that was talking about oil futures?"

		--Ted