Netbook alternative to Ubuntu?

Greetings from Guelph! It really depends on what type of experience you are looking for on your netbook. If you like a desktop feel OpenSuse 11.2 KDE or Gnome runs beautifully on the Asus EEE, for example. So does full Ubuntu. If you want a "netbook remix" interface, I recommend Jolicloud, which now includes a desktop-switcher to enable you to have both a full desktop and a netbook remix interface. Also, hardware support is excellent in Jolicloud. Cheers!

Google OS (gOS) has been praised for being the most beautiful and easiest to use Linux operating system for Netbook on the market.

http://www.thinkgos.com/

System Requirements

Bare Minimum 300 MHz x86 processor 64 MB RAM At least 4 GB of disk space (for full installation and swap space) VGA graphics card capable of 640x480 resolution CD-ROM drive or network card

Recommended 700 MHz x86 processor 384 MB RAM 8 GB of disk space Graphics card capable of 1024x768 resolution Sound card.

PuppyLinux 4.x runs well on my ASUS 901. It loads entirely into RAM, so it's fast and prolongs the life of SSD's, as it generally only writes on shutdown. HTH.

There is also the Kubuntu Nebook remix if you're into KDE.

According to my Experience The best OS currenly out theire is Ubuntu Netbok Remix with Following justifications

1. As Netbook is a gaining market , you don't get all the options/Softwares for every platform (But if its in Linux, it will be there for Ubuntu :D)
2. UNR is not only a selection of software's and Customized GUI's. It has been specifically optimized to Atom processors by collaboration with the Intel developers (Which Others don't have)
3. GUI is always great as always
4. The softwares get updated everyday
5. Its one of the most looked after Netbook OS from a Large community/Backend
6. Still not very popular hardware can be worked out as ubuntu is a most helped out distro from the community

NOTE: If you are on for a Totally different challenge, go for Moblin , Its more Great than UNR as its only been developed for atom processors , and the Backend is mighty Fedora.(My Fav) :)

jolicloud seems to me like the best OS for a netbook is based on ubuntu so you get all the software that you could get with ubuntu.

... maybe even one with builtin BTRFS and COMPRESSION support? (You know, for netbooks with small flash disks, and because it would be speedier.)