What is the difference between .gzip and .tar.xz?
- Extension
- .gzip
- .tar.xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- GNU
- Tukaani
- 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.
- File created using Tar archive and XZ compression tools; contains a .TAR archive that has been compressed using .XZ compression, which compresses at a high ratio.
- MIME Type
- application/x-gzip
- application/x-xz-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.xz
- Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia
- .tar.xz on Wikipedia