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GXSM is a full featured and modern scanning probe microscopy (SPM) software. It can be used for powerful multidimensional image/data processing, analysis, and visualization. Connected to an instrument, it is operating many different flavors of SPM, e.g., scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy or, in general, two-dimensional multichannel data acquisition instruments. The GXSM core can handle different data types, e.g., integer and floating point numbers. An easily extendable plug-in architecture provides many image analysis and manipulation functions. A digital signal processor subsystem runs the feedback loop, generates the scanning signals, and acquires the data during SPM measurements. Since GXSM is licensed under the GNU general public license the full source code is published and everyone is allowed to use and modify the software package for their own needs, not excluding the DSP code. Public online help and discussion forums are available. Ventiotec supports this project by an easy to install GNU/Linux distribution. For convenience an Ubuntu based LINUX distribution can be downloaded which includes the GXSM binaries as well as the source code for further development and already contains the needed software packages (e.g. SciDAVis, Gwyddion and SRanger support). The distribution can even run in a live mode without installation on a host PC. The live-DVD even allows to test GXSM without installing it on a computer. No linux experience is needed! If you want to try out GXSM, please download the ISO-file from this page and burn it on a DVD(RW), then use this DVD to boot your computer. The linux-system will boot up!