In the world of Linux, file compression is a routine yet critical task, serving the dual purpose of saving disk space and speeding up file transfers. With several compression tools at your disposal, ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

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 ...

Well, it depends on whether you really to need to save that much space. gzip is more efficient than compress in terms of end compression size, but in doing so is usually more processor intensive. you ...

The TAR, or Tape Archive, file format was developed to simplify the process of storing and distributing multiple Unix operating system files. TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file ...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ and Chester Springs, PA -- January 28 2015 -- Intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. is making secure, efficient, hardware-based data compression easier for designers to build ...