What is the difference between .tar.xz and .zip?
- Extension
- .tar.xz
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Tukaani
- Phil Katz
- 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.
- 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-xz-compressed-tar
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.tar.xz
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .tar.xz on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia