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Monitor Calibration

LPROF – ICC profiler with a graphical user interface

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

LPROF is a color profiler that creates ICC compliant profiles for devices such as cameras, scanners, and monitors.

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Monitor Calibration

GNOME Color Manager – color management integration for GNOME

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Color Manager is a set of open source graphical utilities for color management to be used in the GNOME desktop.

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Monitor Calibration

DisplayCAL – display calibration and characterization powered by ArgyllCMS

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

dispcalGUI is a graphical user interface for display calibration and profiling using ArgyllCMS.

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Monitor Calibration

ArgyllCMS – ICC compatible color management system

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

ArgyllCMS is an ICC compatible color management system. It supports accurate ICC profile creation for scanners, CMYK printers, and more.

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Monitor Calibration

DisplayCAL Modernization Project

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

This project intended to modernize the DisplayCAL code including Python 3 support.

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Compression

ncompress – traditional Unix LZW file compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ncompress handles traditional Unix .Z files using LZW, with recursive processing, configurable code sizes and stdout output.

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Compression

p7zip-zstd – p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

p7zip-zstd is a p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements. It’s written in the C and C++ programming languages.

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Compression

XZ Utils – data compression software

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

XZ Utils is open source general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio.

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Compression

plzip – massively parallel lossless data compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

plzip brings multithreaded lzip compression, configurable dictionaries, integrity testing, multimember files and damage recovery.

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Compression

lbzip2 – parallel bzip2 compression utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lbzip2 offers parallel bzip2-compatible compression and decompression, configurable worker threads and convenient pipeline processing.

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Compression

lrzip – long-range compression for large files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lrzip compresses large files using long-range redundancy reduction, multiple backends, multithreading, standard streams and encryption.

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Compression

BZip3 – high-ratio lossless data compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BZip3 is a high-ratio compressor with configurable blocks, multithreaded processing, data-integrity checks and a command-line utility.

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Compression

PBZIP2 – parallel implementation of bzip2

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

PBZIP2 speeds up bzip2-compatible compression using multiple threads, configurable block sizes, integrity checks and standard streams.

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Compression

bzip2 – block-sorting lossless file compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bzip2 compresses files with Burrows-Wheeler coding, adjustable block sizes, integrity testing and recovery tools for damaged data.

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Compression

gzip – standard lossless file compression utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gzip provides command-line compression with Deflate, stream processing, integrity testing, recursive operation and rsyncable output.

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Compression

pixz – parallel and indexed xz compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pixz enables parallel xz compression with tar indexing, fast archive listings, selective extraction and multicore decompression.

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Compression

lzop – fast file compressor using LZO

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

lzop is an LZO-based file compressor offering adjustable compression levels, stream processing, integrity tests and metadata preservation.

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Compression

pigz – parallel implementation of gzip

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pigz accelerates gzip-compatible compression across CPU cores, with independent blocks, zlib and ZIP output, and rsync-friendly mode.

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Compression

brotli – general-purpose lossless compression algorithm

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brotli provides lossless compression with configurable quality, custom dictionaries, streaming support and compact web content delivery.

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Compression

Zstandard – fast lossless compression algorithm

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zstandard offers fast lossless compression with multithreading, trained dictionaries, adjustable levels and streaming support.

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