Software Map

pkt is a universal XML packet archiver. It can manipulate files for
backing up documents, transferring them across networks, emailing them,
and sharing them by other means (p2p etc). It uses plugin filters to
do the job and handles virtually any format available if there is a
plugin for it. It handles encryption, compression, conversion, parity
checking, decryption, decoding, repairing, rebuilding, and other tasks
using a universal file format (XML-based). By default, all pkt output is
in 7-bit ASCII which is UTF encoded and is compatible with XML parsers.
pkt files can be disassembled, reassembled, and repaired by hand if
necessary. pkt also supports the use of 8-bit compressed XML packets for
its archives using one of several compression algorithms. In general,
pkt will try to use the best algorithms available.

dtrx intelligently extracts many different archive
types. It will get the contents from tar, zip,
rpm, deb, and cpio archives, as well as compressed
files, with one simple command. It helps keep your
filesystem sane by putting every archive's
contents into a dedicated directory, and making
sure the owner can read and write whatever's
extracted. It can even recursively extract
archives.

Lhasa is a Free Software replacement for the Unix LHA tool, for decompressing .lzh (LHA/LHarc) and .lzs (LArc) archives. The backend for the tool is a library, so it can be reused for other purposes. Lhasa aims to be compatible with as many types of lzh/lzs archives as possible. It also aims to generate the same output as the (non-free) Unix LHA tool, so it will act as a drop-in free replacement.

Industria is a collection of portable R6RS Scheme libraries for cryptography (AES, DES, Blowfish, HMAC, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, RSA, DSA, etc.), zip/gzip/zlib decompression, disassembly of amd64 machine code, Off-The-Record messaging, bytevector pack/unpack syntax, TLS connections via custom binary ports, and more.

Archive is a fully drag-and-drop multi-format archiver. Drag a directory onto it to create an archive. Drag an archive onto it to extract to a directory. It can also compress and decompress streams (for example, you could drag a .gz file onto Archive and from Archive into your text editor).

Z is a simple, safe, and convenient frontend for the compress/uncompress, gzip, bzip2, tar, and zip/unzip utilities to compress and uncompress files and directories.

REOBack Backup Solution (pronounced "Ray-o-back") is a simple backup solution designed for Linux users and system administrators. It is designed to be simple to set up, and easy to use. It is great as a quick solution for those who procrastinate about backups. It supports automatic full/incremental backups of files you define, remote backups via SCP, SMB, NFS, or FTP, as well as auto deletion of old backups.

lzop is a file compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. lzop uses the LZO library for compression services.

gnochive is a GNOME frontend for all common
archivers under Linux.

DACT is a compression tool designed to compress a
file dynamically, choosing the algorithm that
works best per block of input data to produce an
overall smaller output file.

btar is a tar-compatible archiver which allows arbitrary compression and ciphering, redundancy, differential backup, indexed extraction, multicore compression, input and output serialisation, and tolerance to partial archive errors.

FastJar is an attempt to create a much faster replacement for Sun's 'jar' utility. Instead of being written in Java, FastJar is written in C and is around 50-100 times faster than its Java counterpart on Linux 2.X systems.