Hello and welcome to LQ.
Yes, some of those netbooks need a bit of special attention to get it working well. \
This page is about the original distro maybe. At the bottom it has links to some other good choices.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
Although this page is a few years old, it should still provide you with a set of choices.
http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/201...stems-for.html
And from that
http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/201...g-systems.html
Basically you'd want a 32 bit version and what we call a lightweight window manager.
If you knew more about your hardware maybe we could narrow it down.
You should be able to run some live distro's to test.