What is the difference between .bz and .tar.gz?
- Extension
- .bz
- .tar.gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- The GNU Project
- Description
- It's an archive file created using Bzip compression that uses the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm and the Run-Length Encoding (RLE) to compress. Although the compression is slower compared to Gzip compression, it's of better quality. It is mainly developed by Unix OS.
- It's a TAR archive file compressed using GNU zip compression codec. Mainly used by Linux OS to package programs, files, and installers.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip
- application/gzip
- Sample
- sample.tar.gz
- Wikipedia
- .bz on Wikipedia
- .tar.gz on Wikipedia