The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

In the '80s and early '90s, compression was king. As you struggled to connect to a BBS (bulletin board system) with the latest Amiga utilities on, you dreamed of when things would be faster and not ...

Linux 101: How to compress a folder from the command line with tar Your email has been sent At some point in your Linux journey, you'll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the ...

I want users to go on my website chooses pictures that they like, and compress and dowlnload. However, I want to create a .zip(or other compress) file that can be understandable on Linux and ...

This Monday, ZFS on Linux lead developer Brian Behlendorf published the OpenZFS 2.0.0 release to GitHub. Along with quite a lot of new features, the announcement brings an end to the former ...

On March 29, 2024 local time, developer Andres Freund reported the existence of a malicious backdoor in XZ Utils. According to him, it was confirmed that malicious code was present in versions 5.6.0 ...

A curious Microsoft engineer has turned up a backdoor in the nearly-ubiquitous open source XZ Utils package that’s set Linux maintainers into a patching frenzy. Andres Freund, who describes himself on ...

In the course of my research I have to deal with dozens of Gigabytes of data produced by various 2-D computer simulations. Typically, such data comes from a rectangular grid and is stored in a file in ...