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7zip has strong encryption built in. I found it to be the only very useful x-platform (using Keka on OSX) option when you non-power-users to encrypt some files with a passphrase (symmetric encryption). And it's opensource.
Is + GPG really a big deal?
And why the extra step? Just a readily available, opensource archiver --7zip-- does the trick with simple symmetric encryption by passphrase.
I am always amazed 7zip hasn't supplanted WinRar and the Rar format.
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Yeah it's usually an ISO within multiple RARs within multiple ZIPs. And this is when they don't act playful and use an obscure archive format that can only be extracted with a (paid or free but infected) closed source app. Depending on the platform I'm using I have some code in bash, Powershell and C# to deal with this. Non coders must have a hard time !
What formats are you referring to? o.o
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Another major contributor is likely that with rar you can make a multi-file self-extractor. Seem to recall that before broadband and torrents, many a pirated game was released as a split rar .exe that could fit on floppies and was spread across numerous upload sites. Dump them all in a dir, run the exe, and game on...
I believe winzip had the same feature of creating a exe zip spanning over multiple files, for using on floppies.
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If you have .7z files associated with 7z File Manager, it will open on double click. Is that not the default on installation?
You double click on the file and Windows shows two 7zip programs as an option. If you choose the wrong one it will not work later. And it will not repeat the dialog box with the options.
The changelog is sparse, but Igor has some comments on the release on Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/6c...
Why are they still using sourceforge?
It's an un-met need for file hosting, support forums, and dev forums.
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I've observed NixOS from a distance with a modicum of curiosity and promptly filed it away as an awesome server OS (due to the networking infrastructure, coming with a remote management system OOB, the perfect reproducibility, etc), but it looks like I'll need to take a proper look at it as a desktop OS too.
The biggest hurdle I've had with NixOS in practice, on real iron, on a real machine (not just in a VM) is that there's just no way to "cheat". NixOS is different, everything is based on the Nix language, and if you discover that something you need isn't in the package-store, the only way to get it onto your system is by leveraging Nix to build the package for you. Basically the only way to get software to work on Nix…
It's quite easy to set up a development environment with the build tools / dependencies you need: https://nixos.org/wiki/Development_Environments
Then you can run ./configure; make; etc; at will.
Or if you prefer, you can install build tools / dependencies in your profile with "nix-env", like in any normal distribution (but I don't think this is recommended).