Ubuntu will improve fingerprint login. Will we see it in the gorilla?

Fingerprint reader in Ubuntu

After the storm comes the calm always. Canonical launched last Thursday, April 23 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa along with its seven official flavors and, after a few months in which there were news almost daily, it was time to return to tranquility. If nothing happens, next Thursday, April 30, we will be able to download the first Daily Build of Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla and Martin Wimpress, leader of the Ubuntu MATE project, could have already revealed their first novelty.

The truth is that Wimpress has not mentioned anything about Groovy Gorilla, but it really can't. What it did in an article in which he told us about the news of Ubuntu 20.04 was also to talk about things that they have in mind, such as improve fingerprint recognition system in the medium term future. And it is that Ubuntu developers are working hand in hand with the libfprint and GNOME projects to improve support for different types of biometric authentication in GNOME, which includes its own operating system.

Ubuntu will improve our fingerprint recognition

Many devices now ship with fingerprint readers, and this has become a natural way to unlock the user session. However, Linux support for such devices has typically been poor in recent years. Together with the libfprint project, we have improved the backend and user interface, making it possible for hardware vendors to easily support new biometric devices.

El support already exists but, as Wimpress mentions, it is very poor. Therefore, the first thing they will do is improve the user interface and the system of adding a new fingerprint, something that could arrive in Ubuntu within six months coinciding with the launch of the "Wonderful Gorilla" or sooner to the GNOME graphical environment.


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  1.   pepper said

    I don't see any program to detect ubuntu fingerprint. It does not work .