Best File Compression for Linux

RAR is a free, closed-source command-line application that provides Linux and BSD users with an easy way to create or extract rar archives under their open source operating systems. Three executables are included in the binary packages, two versions of...

GRF Tool is the world's first open source application for extracting GRF archives. It aims to be a GRF extractor that does not suck.Here are some key features of "GRF...

Xarchiver is a free and well known archive manager application that provides Xfce users with a lightweight and easy to use solution for handling various types of archives under any open source Linux-based operating systems.Integrates with the Xfce desktop...

Mondo it backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from bare metal if necessary. Mondo is...

PeaZip is a cross-platform graphical application that has been designed to act as an archiving utility based on the 7-Zip open source file archiver. It handles mainstream archive formats and works on Linux and Windows operating systems. Supports a wide...

Ukopp is an open source and freely distributed graphical software written especially for GNU/Linux platforms and designed from the ground up to be used for copying and backing-up files to an external hard disk drive or a USB stick. The program is quite...

PyPar2 is a frontend for the Linux par2 command line, written in Python. PyPar2's GUI uses GTK through the PyGTK library.The current version does not handle the creation of par2 files, only repairing and verifying are available.What is new in this...

XZ Utils (xz-utils or simply xz) is an open source and completely free software project that provides all the essential utilities to work with XZ tarballs on any GNU/Linux operating system. It allows you to extract archives that end in the .xz or .lzma...

S tar or Star is an open source command-line program that can compress/archive many files together into a single tape or disk archive. It is also able to restore individual files from the generated archive.S tar includes a FIFO for speed, multivolume...

mpq-tools is a tool for manipulating mpq archives. At this moment mpq-tools is able to show you file informations and extracting files by their corresponding number. Since version 0.4.0 it includes a full API documentation for developers.MPQ, or MoPaQ, is...