What is the difference between .lzo and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .lzo
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
- The GNU Project
- Description
- An archive file format compressed with lzop, based on the LZO (Lempel-Ziv-Oberhume) compression codec. It is similar to .Gzip but allows a higher compression ratio and faster decompression.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzop
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .lzo on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia