alt Hacker NewsBzip2 is great for files that are compressed once, get decompressed many times, and the size is important. A good example is a software release.
Bzip2 is great for files that are compressed once, get decompressed many times, and the size is important. A good example is a software release.
So is xz, or zstd, and the files are smaller. bzip2 disappeared from software releases when xz was widely available. gzip often remains, as the most compatible option, the FAT32 of compression algorithms.