What is the difference between .bz2 and .tar.xz?
- Extension
- .bz2
- .tar.xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- Tukaani
- 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).
- File created using Tar archive and XZ compression tools; contains a .TAR archive that has been compressed using .XZ compression, which compresses at a high ratio.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip2
- application/x-xz-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- sample.tar.xz
- Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia
- .tar.xz on Wikipedia