Open Source Linux File Compression Software
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View 6 business solutionsBrowse free open source File Compression software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source File Compression software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Info-ZIP project
Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities
Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.) -
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LAME (Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder)
A high quality MP3 encoder
LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only! -
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OptiPNG
Advanced PNG optimization program
OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. This program also converts external formats (BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to optimized PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks and corrections. -
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p7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip, see www.7-zip.org) for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio. Since 4.10, p7zip (like 7-zip) supports little-endian and big-endian machines.
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PeaZip
Free Zip software and Rar extractor
PeaZip is a free archiver tool. The application provides an unified, natively portable, cross-platform file manager and archive manager GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX. Create: 7Z, ARC, Brotl, BZip, GZip, PEA, TAR, WIM, XZ, ZPAQ, ZIP, Zstandard files and more Open and extract 200+ file types: ACE, CAB, DEB, ISO, RAR, ZIPX and more Features of PeaZip includes extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives (sfx), split files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, export task definition as command line script. -
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Zstandard
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios. It also offers a special mode for small data, called dictionary compression. The reference library offers a very wide range of speed / compression trade-off, and is backed by an extremely fast decoder (see benchmarks below). Zstandard library is provided as open source software using a BSD license. Its format is stable and published as IETF RFC 8478. The negative compression levels, specified with --fast=#, offer faster compression and decompression speed in exchange for some loss in compression ratio compared to level 1, as seen in the table above. Zstd can trade compression speed for stronger compression ratios. It is configurable by small increment. Decompression speed is preserved and remain roughly the same at all settings, a property shared by most LZ compression algorithms, such as zlib or lzma. -
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FreeArc combines best 7-zip and RAR features: auto-selected LZMA/PPMD/Multimedia compression, 1gb dictionary, exe/dict/delta data filters, updatable solid archives, SFXes, recovery record, AES+Twofish+Serpent encryption, Linux support and much more...
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FLAC is a free lossless compressed audio format which supports streaming and archival. The FLAC project maintains the format and provides a reference encoder/decoder and input plugins for several popular audio players.
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Brotli
Brotli compression format
Version 1.0.9 contains a fix to "integer overflow" problem. This happens when "one-shot" decoding API is used (or input chunk for streaming API is not limited), input size (chunk size) is larger than 2GiB, and input contains uncompressed blocks. After the overflow happens, memcpy is invoked with a gigantic num value, that will likely cause the crash. Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression. The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932. Brotli is open-sourced under the MIT License. You can download and install brotli using the vcpkg dependency manager. -
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KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. KGB Archiver uses AES-256 encryption to encrypt archives.
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Dinky
Dinky makes files smaller
Dinky is a lightweight developer tool designed to simplify interactions with large language models by providing a streamlined interface for prompt execution and experimentation. It focuses on usability, offering a minimal environment where developers can quickly test prompts, iterate on outputs, and refine workflows without complex setup. The project is built with simplicity in mind, making it easy to integrate into existing development processes or use as a standalone experimentation tool. It supports flexible configuration, allowing users to connect to different model providers and adjust parameters as needed. Dinky also emphasizes speed, enabling rapid iteration cycles that are essential for prompt engineering and prototyping. Its design avoids unnecessary complexity while still providing enough functionality for practical use. Overall, Dinky serves as a compact and efficient tool for exploring and testing AI-driven interactions. -
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Lossless compressor for multichannel 8,16 and 24 bits audio data, with the ability of password data protection. Being 'lossless' means that no data/quality is lost in the compression - when uncompressed, the data will be identical to the original.
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Areca-Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers. Areca-Backup also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.
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zpaqfranz
Zpaq compatible archiver for Win, Linux, Free/OpenBSD, Solaris & MacOS
High-Performance Archiver & Backup for Mission-Critical Data Bulletproof archival for multi-TB datasets, NAS, and VM backups Built for speed: multi-core CPUs and modern SSD/NVMe drives to achieve 1 GB/s+ throughput, up to 3x faster than 7-Zip Far more efficient and versatile than Time Machine or ZFS snapshots Key Features: ✓ Deduplicated, incremental & versioned backups ✓ Anti-ransomware integrity checks & deep validation ✓ Multi-hash support: SHA-2, SHA-3, BLAKE3, XXH3 & more ✓ Strong encryption & low bandwidth overhead for Cloud/NAS/USB ✓ Full deduplicated disk imaging ✓ Read-only Archive Mounting in filesystem ✓ Includes GUI (Win/Linux/Mac): sourceforge.net/projects/catpaq Cross-Platform & Lightweight: Runs on Windows (inc. XP), Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, TrueNAS, Synology, QNAP, ARM, and ESXi. 15+ years of active development • 100% FOSS • Forever Free github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz www.francocorbelli.it/zpaqfranz -
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pngcrush and other tools for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) and MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) files.
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7Zip-GUI
This is an alternative GUI for 7zip on Linux
This program is a Debian-based Linux alternative to 7zFM on Windows. It's easy to use. Thanks so much for Igor Pavlov! https://github.com/shampuan/7Zip-GUI Bu program, Windows tarafındaki 7zFM'in debian tabanlı linux'lar için alternatifidir. -
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Zippy
Pure Nim implementation of deflate, zlib, gzip and zip
Zippy is a pure Nim implementation of DEFLATE, ZLIB, GZIP, and ZIP data compression formats, aiming to be small, performant, and dependency-free. -
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archiver
Easily create & extract archives, and compress & decompress files
Introducing Archiver 4.0 - a cross-platform, multi-format archive utility and Go library. A powerful and flexible library meets an elegant CLI in this generic replacement for several platform-specific or format-specific archive utilities. The core library APIs work pretty well but the command has not been implemented yet, nor have most automated tests. If you need the arc command, stick with v3 for now. Create and extract archive files. Walk or traverse into archive files. Extract only specific files from archives. Insert (append) into .tar files. Numerous archive and compression formats supported. Extensible (add more formats just by registering them) Cross-platform, static binary. Pure Go (no cgo). Multithreaded Gzip. Adjust compression levels. Automatically add compressed files to zip archives without re-compressing Open password-protected RAR archives. -
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Zip-Ada
A standalone, portable Ada library for .zip archives
Zip-Ada is a library for .zip archives. Full sources are in Ada and are unconditionally portable. Input and output can be any stream (file, buffer,...) for archive creation as well as data extraction. Task safe and endian-neutral. More information on: http://unzip-ada.sf.net Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/zipada Mirror: https://github.com/zertovitch/zip-ada/ -
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TurboPower Abbrevia
Advanced data compression toolkit for Delphi and C++Builder
Abbrevia is a compression toolkit for Delphi, C++Builder, Kylix, and Free Pascal. It supports compressing and decompressing PKZIP, Microsoft CAB, tar, gzip, and bzip2 archives, and can create self-extracting executables. On Windows it also provides Delphi wrappers for the LZMA, Bzip2, and WavPack SDKs, and PPMd decompression. Abbrevia also has several visual controls that simplify displaying and manipulating archives, including treeview and listview components. -
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A portable version of the ARJ archiver, available for a growing number of DOS-like and UNIX-like platforms on a variety of architectures.
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Areca Backup (fork)
Free open source multiplatform backup solution.
This independent development (fork) of Areca Backup attempts to extend its lifespan by fixing bugs and adding some new features while keeping its simplicity. Areca was originally developed by Olivier PETRUCCI (aventin): https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/ -
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Crunch
Insane(ly slow but wicked good) PNG image optimization
Crunch is an image compression tool for lossy PNG image file optimization. Using a combination of selective bit depth, color palette reduction and color type, as well as zopfli DEFLATE compression algorithm encoding that employs the pngquant and zopflipng PNG optimization tools, Crunch is effectively able to optimize and compress images with minimal decrease in image quality. While it may produce file size gains larger than those produced by lossless approaches, the impact on image quality is often imperceptible, and optimized file sizes are still significantly lower than the original.
