What is the difference between .tar.xz and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .tar.xz
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Tukaani
- The GNU Project
- Description
- File created using Tar archive and XZ compression tools; contains a .TAR archive that has been compressed using .XZ compression, which compresses at a high ratio.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-xz-compressed-tar
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.xz
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .tar.xz on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia