Ubuntu is a wildly popular Linux distribution. Thus it is no surprise that there is a remixed version of Ubuntu for netbooks. It has been designed for netbooks using Atom processor and having at least 512 Mb RAM.

Hardware requirements:

* Processor: Intel Atom processor
* RAM: 512 MB
* Storage: 4 GB Flash disk (SSD) or hard disk

The selection of software is pretty useful. The following applications are the defaults for Netbook remix:

* Web browser - Firefox 3
* E-mail client - Thunderbird
* Instant messenger - Pidgin
* Media player - Rhythmbox
* eBook reader - FBReader
* RSS reader - Liferea
* Photo viewer - F-Spot
* Office suite - OpenOffice.org

Even some closed source applications are available for the installation:

* Adobe Flash
* Adobe Reader
* Real Player for MID†
* Java JVM

And of course the remix can cope with patented (proprietary) multimedia codecs. So you will have no problems in watching all kinds of multimedia content designed only Windows users in mind:

* MPEG4 (H.263)
* MP3
* AAC
* Windows Media
* Real Media*

If you have a Netbook with Atom and are a Ubuntu user, this might be your favourite choice for the netbook.