There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them.

For files identified as text/.* MIME types, compression can be applied to the file prior to placing it on the wire. This simultaneously reduces the number of bytes transferred and improves performance ...

TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file extension. The Gzip utility will compress TAR files and save your company hard drive space and network bandwidth.