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Fingerprint Recognition with Linux & IBM's T42

Posted by timothy on from the nobody-said-*which*-finger dept.

Michael R. Crusoe writes "UPEK, provider of popular fingerprint sensors to IBM's T42 notebooks and others, has announced that they will be providing a BioAPI compliant library to perform biometric authentication under GNU/Linux. Will Linux be the first operating system to have integrated biometric user authentication 'out of the box'?"

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  1. Fingerprints in Linux? by necromcr · · Score: -1, Redundant

    .. one small small step for mankind, one giant leap for Linux.. ..or sth. like that.

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  2. Re:To answer the question: No. by Pecisk · · Score: -1, Redundant

    'Out of box' means 'I plug this thingy in USB and it works'. Windows needs usually some SP/Hotfix action and driver installation. So it is quite difference.

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