What is the difference between .img and .xz?
- Extension
- .img
- .xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Tukaani
- Description
- A disc image file used to store duplicate CD or DVD data and is commonly used to burn new discs and creating backups. It is developed by any disc imaging software like HH Software Virtual CD.
- Commonly used for Linux software distribution, XZ files are archive files compressed with XZ compression algorithm. It may hold one or more compressed files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-cd-image
- application/x-xz
- Sample
- sample.img
- Wikipedia
- .img on Wikipedia
- .xz on Wikipedia