Netbooks are small laptops, with screen sizes between approximately 7 and 12 inches and low power consumption.
All such distributions purport to be optimized for use with small, low-resolution displays.
They tend to include a broad mix of VOIP and web-focused tools, including proprietary applications rarely seen installed by default by mainstream desktop distributions[citation needed].
For instance, Nokia Maemo and Asus' customized Xandros both ship with Skype and Adobe Flash installed, and Ubuntu's Netbook Edition offers the option to do the same for OEMs.
While no public numbers measuring the install-base of these operating systems are available, Google Trends data on a handful of them indicate their relative popularity: