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Emacs Software

Remacs – community-driven port of Emacs to Rust

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Remacs is a community-driven port of Emacs to Rust. Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

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Emacs Software

JOE – Joe’s Own Editor

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

JOE or Joe’s Own Editor is a full-featured ncurses-based text editor for Unix systems.

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Emacs Software

Zile – small Emacs alternative

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Zile Is Lossy Emacs (Zile) is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

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Compression

ncompress – fast, simple LZW file compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

ncompress is a fast, simple LZW file compressor. This software is in the public domain. It’s written in the C programming language.

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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

lbzip2 – parallel bzip2 compression utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

lbzip2 integrates well with tar. Even on single-core computers, lbzip2 can speed up archiving in combination with tar.

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Compression

Lrzip – Long Range ZIP

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Long Range Zip (Lrzip) is a compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files.

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Compression

BZip3 – spiritual successor to BZip2

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

BZip3 bills itself as a “better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2”.

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Compression

bzip2 – high-quality data compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

bzip2 is a high-quality data compressor. This utility typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques.

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Compression

gzip – single-file/stream lossless data compression utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

gzip provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which are also the default compression tools for Debian.

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Compression

pixz – parallel, indexed xz compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

pixz is a parallel, indexed xz compressor. pixz produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible.

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Compression

lzop – file compressor favoring speed over compression ratio

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

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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Compression

pigz – parallel implementation of gzip

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

pigz is a fully functional replacement for gzip that uses multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.

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Compression

Brotli – generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data.

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Compression

Zstandard – fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios.

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Compression

LZ4 – lossless data compression algorithm focused on compression and decompression speed

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed > 500 MB/s per core (>0.15 Bytes/cycle).

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Images

jpegoptim – optimize JPEG files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

jpegoptim is a utility to optimize jpeg files. Both lossless and lossy optimization are available from this free and open source tool.

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Images

pngcrush – optimizer for PNG files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Pngcrush is a free and open source optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. It is a command-line tool.

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Images

zopflipng – PNG optimisation tool using zopfli

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Zopfli Compression Algorithm is a compression library programmed in C to perform very good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression.

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