Projects

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is a tool for creating quick and user-friendly installers for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a script-based system that adds a very small overhead, only 34 KB. It features LZMA compression, support for multiple languages, and an easy-to-use plugins system

XZ Utils

XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems, but also work on some not-so-POSIX systems. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils.

AutoPackage

Autopackage makes software installation on Linux easy. Software distributed using Autopackage can be installed on multiple Linux distributions and integrate well into the desktop environment.

Nuclex Framework

XNA game programming framework consisting of well-designed classes and components that tackle the really complicated stuff you're confronted with when creating larger games. All code is fully commented from beginning to end and has 100% unit test coverage.

cromfs

PurposeCromfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. Cromfs is intended for permanently archiving gigabytes of big files that have lots of redundancy. In terms of compression it is much similar to 7-zip files, except that reasonably fast random access is provided for the whole archive ... [More] contents; the user does not need to launch a program to decompress a single file, nor does he need to wait while the system decompresses 500 files from a 1000-file archive to get him the 1 file he wanted to open. Note: The primary design goal of cromfs is compression power. It is much slower than its peers, and uses more RAM. If all you care about is "powerful compression" and "random file access", then you will be happy with cromfs. The creation of cromfs was inspired from Squashfs and Cramfs. More informationThe homepage of this software is at http://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/cromfs.html. [Less]

fusecompress

What is FuseCompress?FuseCompress provides a mountable Linux filesystem which transparently compresses its content. Files stored in this filesystem are compressed on the fly and FUSE allows to create a transparent interface between compressed files and user applications. FuseCompress supports ... [More] different compression methods: LZO, gzip, bzip2, and LZMA. Isn't there a new version?This is the legacy C implementation of FuseCompress (0.9.x tree). It performs slightly less well than the current one implemented in C++ (1.99.x tree), but does not exhibit flaws such as data corruption or files growing larger and larger that make the current code (as of July 17 2008) unusable in a production environment. You can find the new version at Milan Svoboda's website. Because Milan is concentrating on the new version, I am now maintaining the old tree. How well does it work?It works well enough that I have trusted it to handle the vast majority of my private data. I am also using it for my $HOME directory, source trees, and I have (with some really evil hacks) succeeded in installing an openSUSE 11.0 system with FuseCompress as its root filesystem. (That, however, is not something you should currently try at home. At least not on a real system.) LZMA support is experimental. Both the implementation in FuseCompress and the library used by it are not stable yet. Versions 4.999.3 and 4.999.5 of the LZMA library create mutually incompatible streams, for instance. I am still occasionally fixing slight deviations from the expected behavior of a Unix filesystem. These problems are all minor, but may still cause data loss, depending on how robust your applications are. FuseCompress now has experimental support for Mac OS X and MacFUSE. Where to get itPackages for openSUSE Source code can be found in the SVN repository. More informationBuild HOWTO How to use FuseCompress What compression method should I use? [Less]

AutoArchive

Utility to help create backups more easily. The idea of the program is that all essential information for creating a backup is in a single file. It can use ‘tar’ for creating archives, has a command line interface, and supports incremental backups.

innoextract

Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-windows systems without running the actual installer using wine.

lzham

Lossless data compression library with a compression ratio similar to LZMA but with much faster decompression.

ArcThemALL!

It is a multi-compressor of files and folders with UPX, MPRESS, ZIP and 7Z formats. It includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, the support to self-extracting archive creation, the extraction of several archive formats and much more.