On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.muktware.com/bitsnbytes/2983 > > I worked on the story and found oss is only a smoke screen. The entire UID > project seems to be a pure Microsoft stack. > > This document provides step-by-step instructions to install the AADHAAR > Enrolment Client and Biometric components needed for Biometrics capturing. > The document is not intended to be a user manual for the AADHAAR Enrolment > Client. The application has been built to work with the given > pre-requisites. > > 1.1 Installation Pre-requisites > • Operating System: Windows XP SP3 OR Windows 7 (only 32-bit editions) > • Windows Installer 4.5 > • Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 > • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express > • Aadhaar QSS SDK Setup > • Vendor Device Manager > > You can see how the UID project has made Microsoft technologies mandatory. > You can't use it without Microsoft. There is no mention of Linux in this > important document.
The API is open: http://uidai.gov.in/UID_PDF/Front_Page_Articles/Documents/Publications/Aadhaar_ABIS_API.pdf http://uidai.gov.in/UID_PDF/Front_Page_Articles/Documents/Publications/Aadhaar_Biometric_Capture_Device_API.pdf http://uidai.gov.in/images/FrontPageUpdates/aadhaar_authentication_api_1_5_rev1_1.pdf And you also have: https://developer.uidai.gov.in https://developer.uidai.gov.in/site/documents https://developer.uidai.gov.in/site/downloads The middleware is implemented using AMQP, which is an open standard (using RabbitMQ). AFAICT, the servers are going to be linux based. Google for "linux site:uidai.gov.in" without the quotes. Given all of the above, you ought to be able to write your own client too. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
