Favorite data compressor

computer_tom · 03-14-2006, 06:22 PM

i myself like Winrar most, using .rar format, but i woant to know what other people like. also, if you reply try to post a compresson comarison if you can to back yourself up

unSpawn · 03-14-2006, 07:22 PM

From what I remember 7-zip has more tweakage wrt compression compared to rar giving slightly better compression ratio at the expense of using more CPU/RAM. Rar has some compression value tweakage but ads recovery volumes. Bzip2 beats Gzip but needs more RAM AFAIK. Basically I'll use whatever I think is best for the job as long as it isn't platform-centric (OK, except cpio) with bzipped tarballs as default.

Shade · 03-14-2006, 07:23 PM

gzip... bzip2... never even heard of winimp.

-- Shade

DJ Shaji · 03-17-2006, 01:18 PM

Crito · 03-17-2006, 01:35 PM

I vote for zoo
http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/zoo/info.html

spooon · 03-17-2006, 09:47 PM

I voted for 7-zip. Of the free

(7-zip is LGPL) compression programs now, it probably has among the best compression (it uses LZMA by default), I think. The POSIX version is here: p7zip; most distros have a package for it.