Nowadays, I find myself using open source softwares more often. In the past, whenever I “acquired” and installed non open source softwares, I also have to go through the trouble of locating a “fix” for that particular software.
Open source softwares does not have this hassle, and yeah they can be as good as, or even better than non open source softwares.
Today, I am going to recommend the open source file archiver – 7 Zip!
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Basic Information:
Official Home Page:
http://www.7-zip.org/
The following is a quote from their site:
The main features of 7-Zip
- High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
- Supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
- Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
- For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
- Plugin for FAR Manager
- Localizations for 63 languages
For myself, ever since I got to know about 7-Zip, I stopped using the rest, since Z-Zip is capable of unpack most of the types of file archive that I would ever come across.
What about you?
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7:58 pm
kljs
said the following:
I have been using 7zip since my cousin told me about it….. and it’s really good……. fast…. and the installer is small……. I also stop using the rest after using 7zip….
7:48 am
Deimos Tel`Arin
said the following:
@kljs:
I stopped using others once I got to know about 7-Zip.
Actually, I got to know about 7-Zip through a particular package that I acquired off the internet. This package is in .7z format, I was puzzled as I never seen such a file format before. (pretty outdated aye?
) I did a Google search and found 7-Zip, been using it since then.
Oh by the way, I noticed that although using 7-Zip to archive files in .7z format is way much faster than using 7-Zip to archive files in .zip format, the .7z archive appears to be a few KBs larger than the .zip archive?
Did anyone experienced this before? Is it normal?
Cheers!