What is the difference between .iso and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
 - .iso
 - .tar.bz2
 
- 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.
 - It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
 
- MIME Type
 - application/x-iso9660-image
 - application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
 
- Sample
 - sample.tar.bz2
 
- Wikipedia
 - .iso on Wikipedia
 - .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia