Does anybody use Akonadi, Nepomuk, Strigi, Soprano, Virtuoso ?

[Patrick Callahan]

Akonadi is the storage management platform for the KDE Personal Information
Management suite (KDEPIM). It's actually a pretty good software package, if
you're into that sort of thing.

Nepomuk is semantic desktop engine for KDE, which tracks metadata across
the filesystem. The 'semantic' element refers to tags and ratings, but it
also tracks ordinary file properties (such as location, date modified) and
their contents. Strigi is the crawler which scans the filesystem to record
those in the database. Virtuoso is that database. Soprano relates to the
storage format used by that data, IIRC.

I find they perform well, and speed up file searches, so I keep them
enabled. Generally, Strigi will try to scan your system while you're not
using it. If it's slowing your system down by scanning it during use, you
can right click on the Nepomuk icon in the system tray to disable scanning.
You can also set limits for the Nepomuk database size in System Settings,
so that it uses less storage on the filesystem and less memory.

I would recommend keeping it, but it's easy to disable completely if you
never use it.
On Jan 9, 2013 10:56 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> Does anybody use Akonadi, Nepomuk, Strigi, Soprano, Virtuoso ?
>
> What is the purpose and benefit of all this stuff?
>
> Doing "locate akonadi" on my system found more than 200 files.
>
> Is there any good reason not to get rid of any and/or all of this stuff?
>
> I have read that they just eat up space and memory and cause one's system
> to run slower.
>
> Where can I find a list of other changes I could make to make my systems
> less cluttered and more efficient?
>
>
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