Google Desktop Available For Linux

In some good news for Linux users today, DesktopLinux is reporting that Google has finally released their Google Desktop application for the OS, adding to it’s Windows and OS X support. The search features have my interest a little piqued, so I might give it a try, despite being skeptical of installing too much Google software on my machine. The article notes that only Deb and Rpm versions of the installer are available, but as long as you have glibc 2.3.2+ and gtk+ 2.2.0+ installed, you should be fine.

Google Desktop for Linux is based on Google’s own desktop search algorithms. As such, it is not an open-source program. A Google representative also said that the program is not built on existing Linux search programs, such as Novell engineer Nat Friedman’s popular Beagle search program.

Source: DesktopLinux