Wilshire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoRussia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bugtechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square127fedilinkarrow-up1468arrow-down18
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minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down4·10 months agoI don’t get why someone would prefer rar over zip and 7z. Even tar.gz and all their flavors are more common.
minus-squarepascal@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months 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-210 months agoHow does it compare to 7z (the file format) though?
minus-squarepascal@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-210 months agoAccording to this benchmark, 7z compression is better. https://peazip.github.io/peazip-compression-benchmark.html
I don’t get why someone would prefer rar over zip and 7z.
Even tar.gz and all their flavors are more common.
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