Best Linux distro for Dell Mini 9?

I bought a Dell Mini 9 and love it

Came with Win XP Home and 8 gig hd

I'm thinking abt giving Linux a try. Ideally it would
be nice to run Linux off a flash drive first to make
sure before the change over

However, what is the best distro for a Dell Mini?

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> I bought a Dell Mini 9 and love it
>
> Came with Win XP Home and 8 gig hd
>
> I'm thinking abt giving Linux a try. Ideally it would
> be nice to run Linux off a flash drive first to make
> sure before the change over
>
> However, what is the best distro for a Dell Mini?

Yes these UMPC are the greatest. As for the best distro for yours, I
don't know. But I do know Ubuntu Live and Puppy Linux runs well from a
flash drive. Although Ubuntu Live corrupts my Windows XP registry on the
solid state drive when Linux is ran from a flash drive. How or why, I
have no idea. But I know booting BartPE from a flash drive and restoring
it with ERUNT fixed it right up. I couldn't believe Ubuntu screwed it
up. So I did it again two more times and the results were the same. So
be careful if you try Ubuntu Live on a Windows machine.

--
Bill
2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2
3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu