After 3 long years since it was first introduced for Windows, Google Desktop Search is finally available for Linux users. It works on both KDE and GNOME based platforms like Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, Debian 4.0 or Fedora Core 6.
Features are pretty much the same, expect for sidebar and gadgets, which are missing in the Linux version:
The Quick Search Box is your fastest way to do web and desktop searches; type a few letters or words into the search box and your top results pop up instantly. You can call up the Quick Search Box by pressing the Ctrl key twice, and hide it by pressing Ctrl twice again.
Google Desktop automatically indexes and allows you to search the full text of virtually all your files, including the following types:
- Gmail
- Text files and source code
- PDF and PS files
- HTML files
- Email from Thunderbird
- OpenOffice.org documents
- Image and music files
- Man pages and Info pages
- File and folder names
People are also complaining that Google simply says it support Linux, without specifying about 32-bit or 64-bit. All-in-all, I’m pretty happy to see Google satisfying the Linux crowd. With this release, Google Desktop Search application works across all major Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac
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