Wilshire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoRussia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bugtechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up1464arrow-down17
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minus-squarepascal@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoYeah, well technically .cab is more common than tar.gz but that doesn’t mean I’d start using it. I personally use RAR because I think it’s a better format than ZIP, but I use ZIP when I have to share the archive with anyone.
minus-squareyoustolemyname@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoHow does it compare to 7z (the file format) though?
minus-squarepascal@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoAccording to this benchmark, 7z compression is better. https://peazip.github.io/peazip-compression-benchmark.html
Yeah, well technically .cab is more common than tar.gz but that doesn’t mean I’d start using it.
I personally use RAR because I think it’s a better format than ZIP, but I use ZIP when I have to share the archive with anyone.
How does it compare to 7z (the file format) though?
According to this benchmark, 7z compression is better.
https://peazip.github.io/peazip-compression-benchmark.html