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Tracker 0.5.4 "Speed Daemon" released

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New release of Tracker (fomerly known as Meta Tracker)
Tracker is a tool designed to extract information and metadata about your personal data so that it can be searched easily and quickly.

Several BUGS FIXES, faster and unobtrusive in daily use due to the better scheduler.
This is a really big jump from the previous release.
Check out all the improvements from the website: http://www.tracker-project.org/

Beagle uses Lucene as

Beagle uses Lucene as storage support, Tracker started with a version of MySQL embedded and now defaults to Sqlite, so the backend data isn't swappable. Another difference is the Tracker tag system, and there's currently work going on to integrate Nautilus emblems with Tracker tags (IMHO really interesting).

Someone at SUN has spent some time last november to test a bunch of indexers (Beagle, JIndex, metaTracker, Strigi), the result was posted on the Tracker mailing list ( http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2007-January/msg00171.html )...