Re: [Tracker] [Announce] Tracker 0.5.4 - Speed Daemon

[Jon Phillips <jon rejon org>]

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Mega-congrats on the new release!!! In wonder how tracker compares now
to the other indexers ;)

Jon

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:52 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce a new stable release of Tracker (version 0.5.4)
> - the all-in-one indexer, search tool and extensible metadata database.
> 
> Tarball :
> http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.4.tar.gz
> 
> 
> New Features :
> 
> * Indexing at ludicrous speed - massively optimised indexing so its now 
> 10x faster than previous version. Indexing speeds are now around 100 
> text files per second (which is about the maximum possible considering 
> the I/O time to read 100 files from a hard drive).
> 
> * Index while you work - now scheduled even better so it should never 
> slow the system down whilst allowing users to work without being 
> affected by or even noticing it.
> 
> Tracker will not hammer your system nor consume unreasonable amounts of 
> memory and is virtually unobtrusive in daily use.
> 
> Also provides additional --throttle command line parameter to customise 
> throttling even further so no need to endure noisy fans or hot laptops 
> while indexing.
> 
> * New verbosity param to control how much data is shown on screen and in log
> 
> * Fixed mplayer backend which is now used if gstreamer backend returns 
> no metadata
> 
> * Improved reaping of all spawned apps - no more zombies!
> 
> * Improved mime and text file detection
> 
> * Added improved deskbar-handler
> 
> * Got tracker to run nicely on FUSE based filesystems
> 
> 
> What is it?
> 
> Tracker is a personal search tool and storage system that allows you to
> search and enhance your personal data with the minimum of fuss.
> 
> It allows you to find the proverbial needle in your computer's haystack
> as well as providing a one stop solution to the organisation, storage
> and categorisation of your data.
> 
> What does it do?
> 
> Tracker trawls through your data and categorises it so that it can be
> retrieved extremely quickly later on via simple searches.
> 
> This organisation puts your data into categories so that application
> like photo managers and music players can instantly find relevant
> content automatically
> 
> Tracker enables you to tag your data with keywords which can be used to
> find related information or to group and categorise your data further
> 
> Tracker lets you extend your data with additional metadata
> 
> For more info, report bugs or to contact developers:
> 
> Mailing List:
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
> 
> Website :
> www.tracker-project.org
> 
> IRC:
> #tracker on irc.gimp.net
> 
> Bugzilla:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=tracker
> 
> 
> 
> 
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