Best File Compression for Linux

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...

KDiskRescue project is a KDE frontent to the gnu program ddrescue. It's written with korundum, the qt/kde ruby bindings. So it depends to korundum and ddrescue. It's still an alpha, so expect issues and report them if you can. Illustrations are alpha too....

Arj project is an open source version of the arj archiver. This version has been created with the intent to preserve maximum compatibility and retain the feature set of original ARJ archiver as provided by ARJ Software, Inc.Installation:UNIX-like systems...

The renameutils package is a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.The file renaming utilities consists of five programs - qmv, qcp, imv, icp and deurlname.The qmv ("quick move") program allows file names to be...

cpp xstream is a C++ flexible stream library.cpp xstream is a collection of several streambuf and iostream classes that allow a programmer to compress and decompress data transparently with gzip or bzip2, to serialize composite types to xdr, to encode or...

Lhasa is an open source command-line tool designed as a replacement for the UNIX LHA tool, for decompressing .lzs (LArc) and .lzh (LHarc / LHA) archives.Lhasa is compatible with various types of lzs and lzh archives. It is also capable of generating...

BinChunker converts a CD image in a ".bin / .cue" format (sometimes ".raw / .cue") to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks.The bin/cue format is used by some popular non-Unix cd-writing software, but is not supported on most other CD burning programs. A lot of...

OfArchiver is a Python app that generates HTML archives of chat rooms on an Openfire instant messaging server.Example usage is as follows:from ofarchiver import OfArchiverofa = OfArchiver()for room in ofa.get_rooms(): ofa.gen_archive(room)A script...

VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many...

GAdmin-Rsync is a completely free and open source graphical software implemented in C around the GTK+ toolkit and designed to provide users with an easy-to-use GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for rsyncRsync is a serve/client command-line program...