Another distribution to try would be:
http://moblin.org/ . It is a
bit
like Xandros but nicer and is a Fedora fork,
Moblin isn't really as of itself a distribution or a Fedora fork
(although clearly it draws some material from Fedora, just as Fedora does
from Debian, and Debian from Fedora and so on).
Moblin is a base upon which you can build netbook and small Linux
distributions. That has several important differences from say Fedora eg
that "It doesn't contain package X" is generally considered a feature not
a bug ;) as the less dependancies in that base the better.
Alan