This is a great guide for installing Ubuntu 9.10 and Boxee on a Acer Aspire 1600 with Intel Atom 230, Nvidia Ion.

http://www.greenhughes.com/content/h...-64-bit-option

I used 32 bit and installed 1GB more RAM for a total of 2GB. Wireless is not the greatest but a wired connection and it runs great.