Which type of compression do you preffer?
Which type of compression do you preffer?
Please compare with speed of making/extracting , compress ratio |
Well, I'm strictly a Linux user, so it's mainly gzip or b2zip for me. b2zip has the smaller compression. As far as speed goes, I don't seem to notice significant spee differences. These two are just my favorite mainly because I can always count on their being supported on any GNU/Linux/BSD/OpenSolaris system.
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For no reason, other than it is what I seem to run into most ofter I am primarly a 'gz' type myself. It seems to be avaialable in the places that I need it.
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I mainly use Linux and other Unix like OSes so bzip and gzip are the compressions tools I use. I prefer bzip2 because it has a better compression ratio than gzip.
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I heared z7 and some other compression tools , make better compression , but they are slow in creating than bz2 and gz types
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Being a Linux user I almost always use gzip or bzip2. bzip2 has better compression but takes a bit longer to compress/uncompress. The Solaris machines at our work don't have bzip2 installed so in that case I need to use gzip.
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Bzip2 and 7zip for linux and windows
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As a Mac user, I missed the .sit (StuffIt) compression format (although I know it's proprietary, so as .rar).
But my preferences are .bz2 and .7z, and principally for this last one, which I think has a great future ahead if more developers/coders interest on it |
As a Linux user, I prefer bz2. As a Linux user with a lot of Windows-using friends, i use zip. Many times people -without a clue of what Linux is- asked how i treat their "zipped" files without winzip... :)
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I am a system manager of Linux and unix-like OSes, the bz2 and gzip always are the compression tool I prefer.
They have higher compression ratio,and almost built-in on various platform. |
I just use plain old zip in windows and linux.
No need for fancy, high compression zip tools with the low price of hard drives today. The only times I need to zip something is for emailing, uploading, or privacy. Anyone can open a zip file. |
bzip2 for me
gzip for others zip for everything else |
Normally gzip, but rzip and lzop in special cases.
$ time gzip sg.tar real 0m0.574s user 0m0.544s sys 0m0.016s $ time bzip2 sb.tar real 0m8.148s user 0m8.109s sys 0m0.032s $ time lzop sl.tar real 0m0.084s user 0m0.064s sys 0m0.024s $ time rzip sr.tar real 0m3.307s user 0m3.212s sys 0m0.096s $ ll s?.tar* -rw-r--r-- 1 user ftp 1196002 Mar 1 13:31 sb.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 user ftp 1404466 Mar 1 13:31 sg.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 user ftp 6635520 Mar 1 13:31 sl.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 user ftp 1954222 Mar 1 13:31 sl.tar.lzo -rw-r--r-- 1 user ftp 1010341 Mar 1 13:33 sr.tar.rz |
Compression
Windows / DOS - WinZip / PKzip 2.5
HP-UX - gzip Linux - not sure yet. Still new to Linux, not UNIX. Most likely gzip or zip. Derek. RH FC4 |
I like bz2. It has a large compression ratio.:Pengy:
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