Best File Compression for Linux

GNU tar or simply Tar, is an open source and completely free command-line program specifically designed for GNU/Linux operating systems, providing users with the ability to create and extract tar archives, as well as various other types of archives. Tar...

makeself project is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable tar.gz archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is.The archive will then uncompress itself...

XPKGTOOL is a GUI front-end for pkgtools - the Slackware Linux package manager.It's designed to allow users to perform the common package maintenance operations,such install, remove and upgrade packages with ease, in a nice X-based user interface.Since...

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...

LaCie LightScribe Labeler for Linux allows you to easily burn LightScribe CD/DVD on Linux.User...

mscompress is a Microsoft's "compress.exe/expand.exe" compatible (de)compressor.mscompress project contains two...

mzSquash is a compression tool for mzML files, an XML-based standard developed by HUPO PSI for spectrometer output. The resulting .mzsquash file can be decompressed back into a mzML file, or read using an included SAX reader.What is new in this...

dtrx is a tool for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives. Here's an example of how you use it:$ dtrx linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2That's basically the same thing as:$ tar -jxf linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2 Installation:You can just put...

Lunzip is an open source, simple, fast and totally free command-line software implemented in C and designed from the offset to help users easily and quickly decompress lzip compressed archives on their GNU/Linux operating systems.It is a CLI tool tailored...