[Kimitzu: A free market for services](https://www.kimitzu.ch/)
Kimitzu is an app intended to create a free, two way marketplace for freelancers and their customers. Our goal is to help freelancers and their customers to find each other, manage payments, and incentivize good behavior on both sides of the transaction. Imagine [Upwork](https://www.upwork.com/) or [freelancer.com](https://www.freelancer.com/), but with:
Don't like how we do things? As open source software, Kimitzu provides the freedom to run, view, modify, and share the code (the [Four Freedoms](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html))
There are also currently no fees. However, we may introduce some kind of fees in the future so as to finance the ongoing development and maintenance of the software. If we do introduce such fees in the future, it will be with plenty of warning.
The Kimitzu project also aspires to treat our users, developers, and other community members well at all times. For us, that means:
It's our philosophy that if we a) treat everyone well b) implement good processes and c) get the incentives right, the community and software will grow in a mutual reinforcing virtuous spiral.
# How is Kimitzu related to OpenBazaar?
Kimitzu is built on top of OpenBazaar so, behind the scenes, Kimitzu uses that same payment system, IPFS listings, etc as the OpenBazaar app.
However, Kimitzu adds adds an additional layer to provide services not currently offered by OpenBazaar:
Explore the initial alpha release with us on the Testnet (v0.1.0-alpha)!
Download the client for your operating system at [https://github.com/kimitzu/kimitzu-client/releases](https://github.com/kimitzu/kimitzu-client/releases). Note that this is alpha software, so please expect bugs and other quirks. Also, by default, the app only operates on the OpenBazaar testnet at this time, so any store you create will only appear on the OpenBazaar testnet, and transactions won't use real money.
Or [play with our test instance](https://test.kimitzu.ch).
Report bugs, suggest, or contribute at [https://github.com/kimitzu/kimitzu-client/issues](https://github.com/kimitzu/kimitzu-client/issues).
Join our community, head over to [https://reddit.com/r/kimitzu](https://reddit.com/r/kimitzu).
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for CentOS 7.6+, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The EPEL repository can be added to your system with the following command:
sudo yum install epel-release
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install Kimitzu, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install kimitzu-client --beta
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