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I am pleased to announce that after months of testing libfprint drivers in my flybook V5 (Experimental branch in Debian),  I asked today to sync it in Ubuntu Intrepid Universe.

Now in Building process: libfprint, fprint-demo and pam-fprint will be avaiable quickly.

libfprint

The fprint project aims to support for consumer fingerprint reader devices.

Previously, Linux support for such devices has been scattered amongst different
projects (many incomplete) and inconsistent in that application developers
would have to implement support for each type of fingerprint reader separately.
We’re trying to change that by providing a central system to support all the
fingerprint readers we can get our hands on.

libfprint is the centre of our effort, it is the component which does the dirty
work of talking to fingerprint reading devices, and processing fingerprint
data.

frpint-demo

Simple GTK+ testing libfprint’s functions fprint-demo is a simple GTK+ application to demonstrate and test libfprint’s capabilities.

It allows user-interaction to enroll finger images and, depending scanner vendors, show both normal and binarized representation, including detected minutiaes.

pam-fprint

pam_fprint is a PAM module which uses libfprint’s fingerprint verification functionality to implement a fingerprint-based login system.

For Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) drivers and tools will be avaiable, for hardy now it`s possible use ubuntu-flybook Team PPA.

I go to close Bug #242550

Big thanks to Reinhard Tartler for ACKs and Colin Watson for Ubuntu Archivie Upload.

Support is avaiable in #ubuntu-flybook on FreeNode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net) but I suggest to join #ubuntu-mobile too.

Happy Fingerpriting