What is the difference between .tar.bz2 and .zip?
- Extension
- .tar.bz2
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Phil Katz
- Description
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia