Open Source Linux File Compression Software

Library and command line tools for XZ and LZMA compressed files

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.

pngcrush and other tools for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) and MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) files.

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.

This project has moved to GitHub https://github.com/Zipios/Zipios Zipios is a C++ library for reading and writing Zip archive files. Access to the data of individual entries is provided through standard C++ iostreams. A simple read-only virtual file system that mounts regular directories and zip files is also provided.

Native (JNI) cross-platform library to extract (password protected, multi-part) 7z Zip Rar Tar Split Lzma Iso HFS GZip Cpio BZip2 Z Arj Chm Lhz Cab Nsis Deb Rpm Wim Udf archives and create 7z, Zip, Tar, GZip & BZip2 from Java.

CADI is an implementation of the JPIP standard (JPEG2000 Interactive Protocol - Part 9). CADI includes a JPIP server, a JPIP proxy, and a JPIP Client. CADI is designed and programmed with the aim to provide a flexible framework to test and develop ne

minidjvu is a DjVu encoder for black-and-white images.

The ZLib.Ada is a thick binding to the popular compression/decompression library ZLib http://www.gzip.org/zlib/. ZLib.Ada provide Ada style access to the ZLib C library.

TclTrf is an extension library to the script language tcl, as created by John Ousterhout. It extends the language at the C-and Tcl-with ``transformer''-commands to encode and compress data. Based on the stacked channels of the tcl core (ability inter

KENS is a group of libraries that allow to compress and decompress data using the Kosinski, Enigma, Nemesis and Saxman formats. They are being programmed in C/C++ (VC++ for the Win32 version) and can be used by any application (even Win32 VB apps).

makeutil is a set of portable public domain programs designed to support C/C++ projects. It provides tools for build operations outside of the normal compile/link pipeline. It is designed to be unobtrusively included directly in your own project.

Major looseless compression algorithms library and documentation. First project: Arithmetic, Huffman, LZ77, LZ78, LZW, RLE. Second project reimplements Deflate. Documentation explains major Entropy Compression Methods.

OpenDark is a free simplification of 'dark'. It's the first open BWT-DC compressor, which has a simple code, high speed and compression ratio. And it's waiting for your ideas! :)

TER implements the CCSDS Recommendation for Image Data Compression (CCSDS 122.0-B-1). TER also adds new features to the Recommendation. TER is designed and programmed with the aim to provide a good basis to test and develop the CCSDS Recommendation.

Command line tool written in Java, that automaticly unpacks (password protected) RAR-Archives or multi-part RARs, if all belonging files are complete. It is designed to do unrar jobs on Linux-based NAS-Devices when downloading from Rapidshare & co.

The OS561 operating system based around FORTH/Java. The OS is to run on a VHDL chip OpenHardware design called the Minon, but could become available for other platforms. The unique point of the design is a revolutionary data compression technology.

OzVM is a simple, lightweight, secure virtual machine. The current target application of OzVM is OzStream, allowing platform-independent self-decoding data, which abstracts encoded data from client applications.

larra provides some simple interfaces for archive access. The main feature is that it uses the same interface for directories and archives, which allows archive-in-archive access (like .tar.gz). For file access a seekable stream interface is used.

.NET wrapper for 7Zip, based on 7-Zip-JBinding, produced with IKVM. Extracts (password protected, multi-part) 7z Zip Rar Tar Split Lzma Iso HFS GZip Cpio BZip2 Z Arj Chm Lhz Cab Nsis Deb Rpm Udf archives. Archive creation/more formats coming soon.

Xinstaller is a program written in C for Linux. It will allow you to make an installer file for your programs. The user will have only to start the executable and to answer some easy questions(mostly "next" :)).

Arpix is a project to create a library for archiving and compression (LibGarp), and a frontend for it (GnomeZip).

Originally developed as a GUI replacement for the JAR utility included with the Java SDK, this program is expanding to become a cross platform archive utility with the ability to create fully cross platform installation programs.

LZO is a compression library which is widely used around the world. The main problem with LZO is that it is absolutely not human readable. People have done crazy stuff to get LZO to run in their language. Usually it implies inline assembly or trying to execute data which actually contains machine code. This is sick. Whoever is responsible for this sorry situation ought to be ashamed. So I'm going to deobfuscate LZO and provide a ISC implementation of this algorithm in Python and C. In addition, I will provide a textual description of the algorithm so that it can be easily ported to any programming language. I expect a severe performance degradation, but I leave optimizing for speed to other people.

GD RCS is a revision contol system which supports repository on removable media. It combines the abilities of PRCS, archiving tools like Zip and backup utilities.