What is the difference between .bz2 and .gzip?
- Extension
- .bz2
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- GNU
- Description
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip2
- application/x-gzip
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia