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GNU GzipXZ Utils
Free

Free software from the GNU Project.

 Free

The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…

Linux, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Available on nearly every Unix-like system
  • The .gz format is read almost everywhere
  • LZMA2 compression gives some of the best ratios available for general-purpose data, and the tools ship on effectively…
  • Compresses single files or streams, not multi-file archives
  • Lower compression ratio than xz, zstd or lzip
  • Compression is slow and memory-hungry at high levels, and the 2024 backdoor incident in the upstream release tarballs…
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later License: 0BSD
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Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 23, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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