High compression ratio in the new 7z format. The release notes say the 7-Zip Linux build supports all the features that the latest 7-Zip Window version, albeit sans a GUI, including: 7-Zip is a fairly well-known app on the Windows scene, so having it available (in some form) on Linux could persuade some reticent Windows users to switch. Linux is not exactly short of tools that do (mostly) the same job as 7-Zip. This build is that: the first official native version of 7-Zip for Linux. 7z format it isn’t an official upstream thing. But that client, reader’s tell me, isn’t quite same thing. I’ve memories of playing around with p7zip in the past. Now, at first I was a bit: “is this news?”. The popular archive utility 7-Zip is now available natively on Linux.ĭon’t unpack your excitement just yet: this is an alpha release, and we’re only taking about a command line client not a full-blown user-interface extravaganza.
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