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What is it
A high-ratio compression format using LZMA2. XZ achieves some of the best compression ratios available and is the default compression for many Linux distributions' package repositories. Slower to compress than gzip but produces smaller files.
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What opens it
Built-in on Linux
7-Zip
The Unarchiver
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