This will show you how to [drastically] speed up your linux netbook

1) install prelink

sudo apt-get install prelink

2) edit the config file

sudo vi /etc/default/prelink

Near the top of the file change the following line

PRELINKING=unknown

to

PRELINKING=yes

3) add in a cron job

sudo /etc/cron.daily/prelink

it will run the prelink cron job.