What is the difference between .bz2 and .wim?
- Extension
- .bz2
- .wim
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Disk Image
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- Microsoft
- 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).
- It is a file-based disk image format created by Microsoft for its latest Windows OS releases, Windows Server 2008 and the Windows Vista. Windows Imaging Format (wim), is used for the standard installation method of the OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip2
- application/x-ms-wim
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia
- .wim on Wikipedia