What is the difference between .bzip2 and .gzip?
- Extension
- .bzip2
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- bzip2
- GNU
- Description
- It is an open-source file compressor and decompressor that is freely available and uses the Burrows-Wheeler codec. It isn't a file archiver as it compresses single files.
- 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
- Wikipedia
- .bzip2 on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia