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19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Compression Tools
To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we have compiled a list of 19 useful free compression tools.
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ouch – compress and decompress files and directories
ouch is a command-line interface tool for compressing and decompressing for various formats.
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18 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Image Compression Tools
This article recommends the best command-line image compression tools. They are all free and open source.
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crabz – like pigz but written in Rust
crabz is a fast, compression and decompression tool. crabz is just a wrapper for the gzp library.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Parallel Lossless Compression Tools
This roundup focuses on lossless compression tools which use multiple cores. Only free and open source software is included here.
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ncompress – fast, simple LZW file compressor
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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p7zip-zstd – p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements
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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XZ Utils – data compression software
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.
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lbzip2 – parallel bzip2 compression utility
lbzip2 integrates well with tar. Even on single-core computers, lbzip2 can speed up archiving in combination with tar.
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Lrzip – 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.
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BZip3 – spiritual successor to BZip2
BZip3 bills itself as a “better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2”.
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pbzip2 – 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.
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bzip2 – 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.
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gzip – single-file/stream lossless data compression utility
gzip provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which are also the default compression tools for Debian.
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pixz – 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.
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lzop – 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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pigz – parallel implementation of gzip
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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Brotli – generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data.
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