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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Zstandard – fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios
Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios.
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LZ4 – lossless data compression algorithm focused on compression and decompression speed
LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed > 500 MB/s per core (>0.15 Bytes/cycle).
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PeaZip – winrar/winzip alternative
PeaZip is a cross-platform portable file archiver, released under the LGPL. PeaZip supports many different archive and compression formats.
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7-Zip – file archiver with a high compression ratio
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. It operates with the 7z archive format.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel WinZip
WinZip is a file archiver and compressor. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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Best Free Android Apps: ZArchiver – archive management tool
ZArchiver is an Android app for archive management. ZArchiver supports a wide variety of archives and compression formats.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2019
We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.
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Best Linux Multi-Core Compression Tools
This article surveys compression software that makes full use of multi-core processors when compressing files. Many of the tools also offer decompression speedups too.
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