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