What is the difference between .scap and .bz2?
- Extension
- .scap
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Firmware
- Compressed
- Developer
- Intel Corporation
- Julian Seward
- Description
- The SCAP file format (.scap) is associated with EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface), which is a specification designed to replace the older BIOS firmware interface used by most computers. The EFI firmware is responsible for booting up the system, and it provides a more modern, flexible, and secure way of managing the boot process compared to traditional BIOS. An SCAP file is essentially an EFI Firmware File that contains firmware update information or data intended for the EFI environment.
- 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/efi
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .scap on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia