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View Poll Results: Which type of compression do you preffer?
gz 24 46.15%
bz2 32 61.54%
zip 11 21.15%
rar 9 17.31%
ace 1 1.92%
arj 1 1.92%
7z 7 13.46%
jam 1 1.92%
lha 1 1.92%
z 1 1.92%
zoo 2 3.85%
zac 1 1.92%
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Old 02-16-2006, 07:43 PM   #1
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Which type of compression do you preffer?


Which type of compression do you preffer?
Please compare with speed of making/extracting , compress ratio
 
Old 02-16-2006, 09:20 PM   #2
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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.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 09:22 PM   #3
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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.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 09:32 PM   #4
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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.
 
Old 02-17-2006, 03:43 AM   #5
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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
 
Old 02-17-2006, 04:46 AM   #6
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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.
 
Old 02-17-2006, 05:02 AM   #7
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Bzip2 and 7zip for linux and windows
 
Old 02-28-2006, 08:40 PM   #8
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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
 
Old 02-28-2006, 09:16 PM   #9
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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...
 
Old 02-28-2006, 09:24 PM   #10
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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.
 
Old 02-28-2006, 09:51 PM   #11
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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.
 
Old 02-28-2006, 11:26 PM   #12
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bzip2 for me
gzip for others
zip for everything else
 
Old 03-01-2006, 07:50 AM   #13
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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
 
Old 03-03-2006, 09:07 PM   #14
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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
 
Old 03-04-2006, 02:02 AM   #15
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I like bz2. It has a large compression ratio.
 
  


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