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Is there a good alternative to 7-zip?
by chrisper 9y ago
Is there a good alternative to 7-zip?
- skrowl 9y agoPeaZip is pretty good and is FOSS
- mmozeiko 9y ago> PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects. It seems to use 7-Zip and/or p7zip binaries.
- skrowl 9y agop7zip was also patched. 18.00 doesn't have the bug, but it looks like Peazip hasn't been updated with it. I'm not sure what other FOSS alternative to use. BandiZip is free (as in beer) but doesn't seem to have an update since Sept, so if it uses p7zip under the hood for 7z, it's also vulnerable.
- Hello71 9y agofor just decompression, unarchiver has free software implementation of unrar. for compression, use command line (tar -J, zip, whatever) or file roller.
- nbsd4lyfe 9y agoLibarchive (sometimes known as bsdtar) supports 7z with an independent implementation.
- pmorici 9y agoI think he means an open source unarchiver that works on windows. Obviously Linux and bad have tar/gz/bz2 etc
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- askvictor 9y agoWhat are your criteria? I moved to Bandizip a few months back and it covers all of my requirements quite well.
- rurban 9y agoI also lost my trust into zlib recently, given that the current released version is full of bugs, and the current master is written horribly. Not as bad as openssl, but close. E.g. they are still using K&R sigs, wrong casts, and have several copy&paste bugs which you only detect with a stricter c++ compiler.