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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.

ouch is a command-line interface tool for compressing and decompressing for various formats.

This article recommends the best command-line image compression tools. They are all free and open source.

crabz is a fast, compression and decompression tool. crabz is just a wrapper for the gzp library.

This roundup focuses on lossless compression tools which use multiple cores. Only free and open source software is included here.

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

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

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

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor based on the lzlib compression library.

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