What is the difference between .iso and .gzip?
- Extension
- .iso
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- GNU
- 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.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- application/x-iso9660-image
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .iso on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia