What is the best alternative to WinZip
January 18, 2010
By: Neo
In Category Microsoft Windows
If you are tired of commerical software WinZip, The best free software alternative to WinZip is 7-zip.
In fact 7-zip is better than WinZip as it supports more formats like BZIP2, RPM etc along with its own format 7z.
7-zip in Windows
The 7-zip can create archives of following formats.
- 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
The 7-zip application can unzip following formats
- 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
- ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
This is best compatible with UNIX flavours as it supports the archives seen on UNIX systems like GZIP, TAR, BZIP2, Z, CPIO and RPM.
It can unzip RAR format which is seen on most downloading sites.
