What is the difference between .bz2 and .zip?
- Extension
- .bz2
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- Phil Katz
- 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 ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip2
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia