Linux Desktop Search: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

Beagle Desktop Search for SUSE Linux Enterprise

Does your desktop search leave you missing something...like results? With Beagle integrated Linux desktop search, you don't need to worry about where or when you stored or accessed information. Simple keyword searches return all documents, applications, e-mail and instant messages and even recent Web pages in a single results window. No longer do you have to remember where you stowed it - this puppy searches in every nook and cranny of your desktop to find the file you are looking for. This is a linux desktop search that doesn't require any organizational skills whatsoever.

Of course, if you know the general area where the file might be, you can help the Beagle along by specifying which folders to include in the file search, and you can exclude any type of resource, such as a directory path, filename pattern, or mail folder to make the searching even faster. But even without any help from you, Beagle is a fast and relentless Linux search tool that can find nearly anything you've stored on your desktop, including:

• Documents
• E-mails and attachments
• Web history
• IM/IRC conversations
• Address book contacts
• Calendar appointments
• Notes
• Source code
• Images
• Music/video files
• Archives and their contents
• Applications

As part of the overall Linux desktop search, Beagle will even extract text and meta data from the following:

• Folders
• Office documents
  • OpenOffice.org (sxw, sxc, sxi and more)
  • OpenDocument (odt, ods, odp)
  • Microsoft Office (doc, xls, ppt)
  • AbiWord (abw)
  • Scribus (sla)
  • Rich Text Format (rtf)
  • PDF
• Text Documents
  • HTML (xhtml, html, htm)
  • Source code (Boo, C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Matlab, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scilab and Shell scripts)
  • Plain text (txt, any plain text file that isn't filed under any other category)
• Documentation/Help Documents
  • Texinfo
  • Man pages
  • Docbook
  • Monodoc
  • Windows help files (chm)
• Images (jpeg, png, bmp, tiff, gif, svg)
  • F-Spot and Digikam tags in the images are also indexed
• Audio (mp3, ogg, flac)
• Video (mpeg, asf, wmv, mng, mp4, quicktime and other formats supported by MPlayer or Totem)
• Archive files (zip, tar, gzip, bzip2) and their contents
• Application launchers
• Linux packages (ebuild, rpm, dpkg)
• Generic XSLT files

Basically, if Beagle can't fetch it for you, it's probably not there. This is THE definitive Linux desktop search tool, and will help put you back in control of all that data you've so carefully saved.

Take a Closer Look

• Use the Reviewers Guide (PDF) to guide your exploration of all the features of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 in greater detail.
• Want to see SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop in action? Check out the product demos.

Talk to us today about the Linux desktop search in SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. +