Compression to the Max
February 19, 2008 12:39 am Software, Software, SoftwareCompression has been around for ages, and the standard for windows has been defined using WinZip, for Unix it has been a standard of Gzip. That is until now!
Some time ago the new compression format 7-zip was released, giving better compression, and better security. I have started using 7-Zip as my compression engine for some time, and the compression and performance increases are worth it.
If you have a multi-core system, 7-zip for windows and for Unix/Linux will utilize both of the CPU’s during compression. Overall this definitely is a great replacement for WinZip on windows and a great addition for the Unix system as well.
You can obtain 7-Zip from here: 7-Zip
A number of packages exist for Linux and BSD (can you say Mac) systems as well.
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