engrampa
libarchive
engrampa | libarchive | |
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3 | 33 | |
102 | 2,886 | |
2.9% | 3.0% | |
7.1 | 9.1 | |
12 days ago | 3 days ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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engrampa
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TIL there's a fork of the unmaintained p7zip port of 7-Zip
The p7zip port of 7-Zip is several releases behind and the project seems to be abandoned. I discovered this when a large archive failed to extract with Engrampa which uses it. It reported a "Headers Error" which is due to a compatibility problem between zip format implementations. 7-Zip has a fix but the port doesn't. But there's a fork on GitHub which is being actively maintained. Check it out.
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I made a terminal utility to monitor some system stats. Was wondering if you guys know of anything better or if I should continue dev work on it since we need it?
Linux mint mate has something called "System Monitor" that is a running graphical plot of system activity. http://www.mate-desktop.org It is by the Mate developers. Very nice. It is similar to the windows monitor.
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What compression tool you mainly use?
I use Engrampa. Which archive format I use depends on the use case. For example, if Windows users are involved, I usually use Rar archives. Under Linux, I usually use tar.xz.
libarchive
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The XZ attack and timeline
29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.
- Zip entry size unset now honors user requested compression level
- Suspicious libarchive pull request
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Potentially malicious commit by same author on libarchive: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609
- WinRAR musste shady werden.
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Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux
Full agreement, and with the addition of xpk¹/xfd² as natural extensions to that extensibility too. I see things like xfd supporting xz¹, and I'm simultaneously amazed that it exists and happy that I don't need to do xz {,de}compression on 68k ;)
I guess we have something similar-ish with libarchive⁴, but nobody(including me) has pushed the extra mile to get file dialogs to support random compression and decompression formats.
Beyond OT: I didn't realise how much stuff was still going on at aminet, but I love love LOVE that people are still dropping new car sets for Geoff Crammond's F1GP.
¹ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpk_User
² http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfdmaster
³ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfd_lzma.lha
⁴ https://www.libarchive.org/
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WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts
I don't have a preview channel install handy to check, but apparently they're using libarchive so here's the full list assuming they expose everything it supports:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm...
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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23493 for the Dev Channel
As announced at the Build conference back in May, this build adds native support for reading additional archive file formats using the libarchive open-source project such as
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Poor winrar
LibarchiveFormats · libarchive/libarchive Wiki · GitHub
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Windows 11 getting native support for 7-Zip, RAR, and GZ archives
Seems what they're using is BSD-liscensed: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki
What are some alternatives?
p7zip - A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/).
ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
grafterm - Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
pbzip2
fpart - Sort files and pack them into partitions
s-tui - Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility
pixz - Parallel, indexed xz compressor
mediactl - Media controls for Linux, powered by MPRIS via D-Bus
Klib - A standalone and lightweight C library