What is the difference between .gzip and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
 - .gzip
 - .tar.bz2
 
- Format
 - Binary
 - Binary
 
- Category
 - Compressed
 - Compressed
 
- Developer
 - GNU
 - The GNU Project
 
- Description
 - 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.
 - It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
 
- MIME Type
 - application/x-gzip
 - application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
 
- Sample
 - sample.tar.bz2
 
- Wikipedia
 - .gzip on Wikipedia
 - .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia