bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor for Linux. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques.
ArchView is an extension of Firefox, which can open archive file online without downloading the whole archive.
PeaZip is a file and archive manager for Linux and other systems. It Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption.Supports almost all file formats.
File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment. File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving software utilities such as tar and zip.
Ark is a program for managing various archive formats within the KDE environment. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark.
p7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip, see www.7-zip.org) for Linux and Unix systems.
Q7Z is a P7Zip or 7-Zip GUI, which attempts to simplify data compression and backup.
GNU Gzip is a popular data compression software originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part.
Xarchiver is a GTK+2 only frontend to 7z,zip,rar,tar,bzip2, gzip,arj, lha, rpm and deb. Xarchiver allows you to create,add, extract and delete files in the above formats.
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager for Linux. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.
LRZIP (Long Range ZIP) is a Linux compression software optimised for large files. The larger the file and the more memory you have, the better the compression advantage.
Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2.