p7zip is a Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver with high compression
ratio (www.7-zip.org) with lots of features:
* 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL
* High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
o Unicode file names
o Variable dictionary size (up to 4 GB)
o Compressing speed: about 1 MB/s on 2 GHz CPU
o Decompressing speed: about 10-20 MB/s on 2 GHz CPU
* Supported formats:
o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
o Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB
and NSIS
* For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is
2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
* Self-extracting capability for 7z format
Mark Adler, maintainer of popular zlib library has released a multicore
capable Parallel Implementation of GZip, nicknamed PIGZ. Version 1.5
implements nearly all of gzip's functionality, including decompression
of .gz and .Z (Unix compress) files.
Secure Tar (star) doesn't create encrypted tape archives (tar files)
yet, but it can encrypt/decrypt files only using multiple blocksizes,
and keysizes using the AES algorithm Rijndael. Once the standalone app
is stable, then it will be incorporated with tar. The encryption is
exported under exemption TSU 740.13.
Linux ports of KZIP and ZIPMIX by Ken Silverman.
A PKZIP-compatible compressor focusing on space over speed. KZIP
creates smaller .ZIP files than PKZIP with maximum compression
enabled and even beats 7-Zip most of the time.
XMill is a new tool for compressing XML data efficiently. It is based
on a regrouping strategy that leverages the effect of highly-efficient
compression techniques in compressors such as gzip. XMill groups XML
text strings with respect to their meaning and exploits similarities
between those text strings for compression. Hence, XMill typically
achieves much better compression rates than conventional compressors
such as gzip.
The Zip-Ada library is written entirely in Ada, allowing compression
operations without any OS-dependent external calls on streams and files.
In addition to the library and command-line demos, it has these tools:
* zipada - create compressed Zip archive
* comp_zip - utility to compare contents of two Zip archives
* find_zip - utility to search for text stream of Zip archive
* rezip - tool for recompressing Zip archives towards optimal compression
* debzip2 - tool to decompress BZip2 compressed files (.bz2)
Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our
universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia
doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout
the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you
explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to
spacecraft only a few meters across. A "point-and-goto" interface makes it
simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
Celestia is expandable. It comes with large catalog of stars, galaxies,
planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough,
you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.
This is sscalc, a sunrise/sunset time calculator, ported to C.
You can find the sunrise and sunset times for anywhere in the world
as long as you know the latitude and longitude of the location.
The program is a port of the JavaScript program located at
http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/gen.html
The page was written by Aaron Horiuchi, Chris Lehman and Chris
Cornwall.
GpsPrune is an application for viewing, editing and converting
coordinate data from GPS systems. Basically it's a tool to let you
play with your GPS data after you get home from your trip.
It can load data from arbitrary text-based formats (for example,
any tab-separated or comma-separated file) or Xml, or directly from
a GPS receiver. It can display the data (as map view using openstreetmap
images and as altitude profile), edit this data (for example delete
points and ranges, sort waypoints, compress tracks), and save the
data (in various text-based formats). It can also export data as a
Gpx file, or as Kml/Kmz for import into Google Earth, or send it
to a GPS receiver.
Ario is a GTK2 client for MPD (Music player daemon). The interface used to
browse the library is inspired by Rhythmbox but Ario aims to be much lighter
and faster.