Practical Guide to File Compression & Archiving in Linux OS

This practical assignment focuses on Linux file compression and archiving techniques, covering common utilities such as compress, gzip, bzip2, tar, cpio, and dump. It includes hands-on projects involving compressing and decompressing files, creating and extracting archives, and using RPM and DPKG package managers. The projects demonstrate how to use these tools for file management, highlighting the differences in compression ratios and efficiency between different algorithms. It also includes exercises on installing, querying, and removing packages using RPM and APT package managers. The assignment concludes with exploring additional package managers like Zypper and Pacman.