What is Blosxom?
Blosxom is an open source blog software written in Perl for building simple but highly configurable websites. It uses a lightweight flat file database rather than a relational database backend which contributes to its speed and simplicity. It has a plugin architecture that allows for extensibility and customization.
Blosxom was designed to be lightweight, customizable, and standards compliant. Due to its simple text-based system, it is fast, reliable, and requires minimal system resources. Some key features of Blosxom include:
- Flat-file database using text files
- Minimal system requirements
- Small memory and bandwidth footprint
- Supports Atom/RSS syndication feeds
- Flexible plugin architecture for custom functions
- Compliant with blogging APIs and standards
Though not as feature-rich as larger blogging platforms, Blosxom is popular with developers and tech-savvy users due to its simplicity, speed, portability and flexibility. It is especially well-suited for small personal blogs or community sites that value performance over advanced functionality. Due to its Perl roots, Blosxom works especially well on Linux/UNIX based web servers.