What is the difference between .iso and .gz?
- Extension
- .iso
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- The GNU Project
- Description
- A disc image file format that contains exact duplicate data from an original CD/DVD and is based on the ISO-9660 Standard. It stores images, directory structures, file attributes, boot code, and any other filesystem information.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-iso9660-image
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .iso on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia