11-07-2010, 05:11 PM
I know this is an old thread, but I thought I'd contribute my opinion. I'm actually on a netbook myself--the HP Mini 1000. Puppy Linux is my distribution of choice. It's fairly small and runs very quickly with 1.6 Ghz and 1 GB of RAM on a 60 GB HD. It used to be quite minimalistic, but it's recently changed quite drastically. Lucid Puppy, which is the version I'm running comes with access to Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx repositories.