Keeping Linux under Ctrl-Ctrl

Recently, Google released their Google Desktop product for Linux. I found out about it just this evening. Earlier today, I was searching through my home directory looking for some old files from a long time ago, and I though, “Wouldn’t it be great if Google Desktop Search was available for Linux?” About two hours later, my wish came true.

Installation was a piece of cake–I just installed the Ubuntu package, and I was up and going. I did run into one problem. When I first started it up, it tried hoping the home page in my Quanta code editor instead of Firefox. This is typically because when I open up web page files that are resident on my computer, I like to open them up in an editor so I can work on them. So having Google Desktop try to open itself up in an editor…. not so great, but easily fixed.

When Google came out with their Desktop product for Mac, I said that it would be HUGE if they could also release it for Linux. The power of having a product out for Windows, Mac and Linux is great for enterprise. Business IT departments can choose one single product, and roll it out to all their heterogeneous computing environments.