biometrics : fingerprinting and Debian ?
by Herve5 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#540Z0)
Hello all,
I'm finalizing the install of a new Debian Testing Xfce non-free on a new Lenovo thinkpad P53 and (sometimes thanks to this forum) things are going almost perfectly.
It happens the machine features a fingerprint reader, which is impressively efficient when booting Windows 10
(having always been sceptical on this kind of things, it really took time for me before admitting that yes, that is really faster than a log/pass and better than just nothing at wakeup ;-)
So, I had a look in Synaptic with 'biometric' as a keyword, and I found apparently a single development, by people I had not heard of till now, named UKUI, with real bits on github for thumbreaders etc.
So my questions would be :
- Are these UKUI guys honourably known, are there users here?
- If I install these drivers, am I at risk of importing ranges of dependencies which I may not manage to eliminate properly afterwards if things don't work? (I'm an autoremove real newbie ;-)
- Are there other drivers elsewhere that you would recommend?
Thank you!!
Herve
I'm finalizing the install of a new Debian Testing Xfce non-free on a new Lenovo thinkpad P53 and (sometimes thanks to this forum) things are going almost perfectly.
It happens the machine features a fingerprint reader, which is impressively efficient when booting Windows 10
(having always been sceptical on this kind of things, it really took time for me before admitting that yes, that is really faster than a log/pass and better than just nothing at wakeup ;-)
So, I had a look in Synaptic with 'biometric' as a keyword, and I found apparently a single development, by people I had not heard of till now, named UKUI, with real bits on github for thumbreaders etc.
So my questions would be :
- Are these UKUI guys honourably known, are there users here?
- If I install these drivers, am I at risk of importing ranges of dependencies which I may not manage to eliminate properly afterwards if things don't work? (I'm an autoremove real newbie ;-)
- Are there other drivers elsewhere that you would recommend?
Thank you!!
Herve