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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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PeaZip – winrar/winzip alternative

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

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

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

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

August 27, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

WinZip is a file archiver and compressor. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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8 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Linux Archive Managers

August 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Linux has a good range of free and open source archive managers. We feature the best graphical archive managers.

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ZArchiver

Best Free Android Apps: ZArchiver – archive management tool

January 1, 2021 Eilidih Parris Android

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

December 23, 2019 Steve Emms Software, System Software

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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Compression

Best Linux Multi-Core Compression Tools

January 9, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

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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