What is the difference between .xz and .bz2?
- Extension
- .xz
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Tukaani
- Julian Seward
- Description
- Commonly used for Linux software distribution, XZ files are archive files compressed with XZ compression algorithm. It may hold one or more compressed files.
- 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/x-xz
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .xz on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia