Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Installing Ubuntu NetBook Remix on my ASUS EEE PC 900A was as simple as burning the boot image to a USB stick, inserting it into the EEE, pressing escape on boot, selecting the USB drive, and installing normally. This is now my third OS on this NetBook, all Linux based.
First impressions: it is quite noticeably faster. Firefox had been sluggish at times, but now is snappy. Installing flash was straightforward (visit YouTube, follow the links, select the .deb for Ubuntu) and while video had been nearly jerk free, it now is completely smooth.
Fonts look better. Installation of new software has been redone (Synaptic => Ubuntu Software Center), though it states that “Microsoft Core Fonts are not available in the current data” (I use Georgia if available on my banner).
Wifi and sound worked out of the box.
Wakeup from suspend: 5 seconds.
Slightly more disk space available:
$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 3644768 2056740 1402884 60% / udev 509040 244 508796 1% /dev none 509040 100 508940 1% /dev/shm none 509040 108 508932 1% /var/run none 509040 0 509040 0% /var/lock none 509040 0 509040 0% /lib/init/rw