What is the difference between .gzip and .tar.gz?
- Extension
 - .gzip
 - .tar.gz
 
- 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's a TAR archive file compressed using GNU zip compression codec. Mainly used by Linux OS to package programs, files, and installers.
 
- MIME Type
 - application/x-gzip
 - application/gzip
 
- Sample
 - sample.tar.gz
 
- Wikipedia
 - .gzip on Wikipedia
 - .tar.gz on Wikipedia