What is the difference between .gz and .bz2?
- Extension
- .gz
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Julian Seward
- Description
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- 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).
- MIME Type
- application/x-compressed
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.gz
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia