XZ Utils is open source general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio.
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plzip – massively parallel lossless data compressor based on lzlib
Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor based on the lzlib compression library.
Read morelbzip2 – parallel bzip2 compression utility
lbzip2 integrates well with tar. Even on single-core computers, lbzip2 can speed up archiving in combination with tar.
Read moreLrzip – Long Range ZIP
Long Range Zip (Lrzip) is a compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files.
Read moreBZip3 – spiritual successor to BZip2
BZip3 bills itself as a “better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2”.
Read morepbzip2 – parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor
PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.
Read morebzip2 – high-quality data compressor
bzip2 is a high-quality data compressor. This utility typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques.
Read moregzip – single-file/stream lossless data compression utility
gzip provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which are also the default compression tools for Debian.
Read morepixz – parallel, indexed xz compressor
pixz is a parallel, indexed xz compressor. pixz produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible.
Read morelzop – file compressor favoring speed over compression ratio
lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to gzip. lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services.
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