PeaZip VS 7z

Just saying that 7-Zip is great, both the compression (I use it for most of my data archival, because the higher compression ratio is worth the longer times to compress) and the software itself, pretty much what a good archival program on Windows should be like.

On other OSes, I guess I just use whatever is included with the distro, or something like PeaZip: https://peazip.github.io/

Curious to hear from RAR proponents.

How about just the blue horizontal bars with white text trend?

https://peazip.github.io/

https://www.izarc.org/

What prompted this standardization of look? Im seeing it all over now. The fact that I could find two archive utility websites, as example should speak to its ubiquity.

Good for them! Lately I have been enjoying PeaZip[1] since it supports all platforms and a lot of formats. It also has some good UI and helpful functions.

[1] https://peazip.github.io

PeaZip is available for macOS.

you need to unzip it, i recommend peazip, its free and fast. heres a link: https://peazip.github.io/

PeaZip is similar to 7-Zip but with a better UI (both are free and open source).

An example. Download about 500 mb big archive from https://database.lichess.org/ You will need PeaZip to extract https://peazip.github.io/ Load database in SCID https://scid.sourceforge.net/ Make basic opening moves Search > Current board Database > Export all filter games > export filter to PGN Give it opening name and save Open that just saved database Search > Header and set filter how you like it Database > Export all filter games > export filter to PGN Give it a name and save Now if you want only games with mate, filter it with Scid vs Pc Search > General > End of game > checkmate Tools > Export all filter games > export filter to pgn

the most advanced tool i know of is universal extractor for windows. Its Open Source and should run on Wine. You could also try PeaZip

Looking back at this version history [1], there was perviously a gap of 3.5 years between releases (2011-2014). Skimming through the discussion forums, the 2.5yr gap between 19.00 and 21.07 was filled with a number of alpha and beta releases, eg 20.02 [2]. Version numbering seems to follow a consistent yy.## format since 2015.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/files/7-Zip/

[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/9...

Also, unlike WinRAR, 7zip is open-source. Code mirror here: https://github.com/kornelski/7z

It's also open source.

AES is only as good as the KDF protecting the key. Looking at the github mirror of its code (updated march 2019), it seems to be using PBKDF2-SHA1 with 1,000 iterations. That's actually really bad because SHA1 is weak, and 1,000 iterations is very low.