Blosxom is a minimalistic & free blog-engine, written in Perl.
It was developed originaly by Rael Dornfest and exists since ~2003. It uses simple textfiles instead of a database, unlike most blog software and runs on every standard, cheap and even crappy webspace and server with CGI. You can simply call it the 'zen of blogging' - it's for all real bloggers, who want to 'blog' - and nothing else.
The design of Blosxom is minimalist. It is distributed as a single Perl script, and all configuration is done by editing this single file. All of the weblog entries are stored as plain text files consisting of a headline, optional headers or meta-information (if using certain plugins) and a blank line followed by the post body.
New display styles can be added by creating template files called 'flavours'. By default, Blosxom supports showing recent posts, doing content categorization, content retrieval by date (and permalinking based on that), and RSS feeds. And it can be extended with dozens of available plugins.
Blosxom tend to be used by people who prefer to write weblog postings with their favourite text editor instead of using a web-based interface. You can set up a new Blosxom-blog in ~5 minutes. And - Blosxom can operate as a simple, dynamic CGI script or also to produce static HTML files!
It's the zen of blogging & for people, who loves minimalism!
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