What is the difference between .tar.gz and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .tar.gz
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- The GNU Project
- Description
- It's a TAR archive file compressed using GNU zip compression codec. Mainly used by Linux OS to package programs, files, and installers.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/gzip
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.gz
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .tar.gz on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia