The last two months I've been following developments on the Moblin project with great interest.

Moblin 2.0 (in Beta at the moment) has the so called 'Clutter interface' as it's base. This interface makes it easy for users to get optimal Internet and multimedia use out of their netbook.
Originally this project was started by Intel and this year they have opened it up and placed it in the hands of the Linux foundation (http://moblin.org/).

Amongst others, bootspeed, optimal use of screenresolution and power consumption ..