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About the project
Spins by Kilz is a one person project right now.
It is my way of giving back to the Linux community
in some small part for all that I have received
over the past 17 years.
There are three main parts to this project:
The Spins.
I create unofficial spins of Manjaro based on the
stable branch. These spins use the theming created
and stored in the repository. I have no want or
need to create yet another distribution. My goal
is to make each desktop look and function at its
best.
The Themes
The project creates Grub, LightDM, Icon, Gtk,
Kvantum, Cinnamon, and Gnome shell themes. While
the theme packages may be named for a specific
desktop, they should work with the others. The
exception is KDE, its theming is very different
than the others. Since I use Lightdm, its the only
display manager with themes in the repo.
The Repository.
This holds all of the packages I have created. It
is Manjaro Linux and should be Arch Linux
compatible but have not been tested on Arch. Most
of the packages deal with theming of the Linux
desktop. There are also some applications from the
AUR and those I have forked.
Security
Security is a main
focus of the project. Not because there have
been security problems in the projects past,
there have been none. It is more of a focus to
eliminate any potential problems.
The project has been creating spins since
November 17, 2019. The projects good name and
the good will we have created with SbK users is
irreplaceable. In order to make sure end users
are safe we use one EdDSA key to sign all
packages and iso's. The private key and its
passphrase is held by one person, James
Bielefeldt the projects creator. No one else has
access to the private key, and no one else
creates packages for the repository or creates
iso releases. The projects packages are signed,
and the signature is checked by package managers
before they are installed. Iso's are also signed
and end users can check the signature
before installing.
Please rest assured that I will do everything I
can to make sure the software we provide is
safe.
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