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