What is the difference between .lzma and .bz2?
- Extension
- .lzma
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- 7-Zip
- Julian Seward
- Description
- A compressed file format that uses LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain Algorithm) compression for higher compression ratio and fast decompression. Mainly used by 7-Zip file archivers.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzma
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.lzma
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .lzma on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia