Data compression works so well that popular backup and networking tools have some built in. Linux offers more than a dozen compression tools to choose from, and most of them let you pick a compression ...

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 ...

Although the differences are sometimes made opaque in casual conversation, there is in fact a complete difference between archiving files and compressing them. Archiving means that you take 10 files ...

At some point in your Linux journey, you’ll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the command line. Jack Wallen shows you how. The Linux command line is an incredibly powerful tool.

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 ...

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 ...

The bug, which affects the current version of zlib, 1.2.2, can be exploited to create a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which could crash any application using the library or let the attacker plant ...

The new feature enables enterprises and storage-hosting providers to transfer files over networks with far greater speed, throughput, and less time than before. SMB is a ubiquitously used protocol for ...

On Windows VMs, you'd typically run defrag and Precompact (from precompact.iso), then use VS/VPC to compress the VHD while the VM is offline. I have a Linux VM with a VHD of ~3GB but df reports 1.5GB ...

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 ...