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For the uninitiated, NOOBS = New Out Of Box Software and here is an explanation from the guys at the Raspberry Pi foundation:

NOOBS is a way to make setting up a Raspberry Pi for the first time much, much easier. You won’t need network access, and you won’t need to download any special imaging software. Just head to the downloads page, grab a copy of the NOOBS zip file, and unpack it onto a freshly formatted 4GB (or larger) SD card. When you boot up for the first time, you’ll see a menu prompting you to install one of several operating systems into the free space on the card. The choice means you can boot the Pi with a regular operating system like Raspbian, or with a media-centre specific OS like RaspBMC.

Here is a screenshot of the main OS selection screen.

From this you can see that the following Operating Systems can be installed:

• Archlinux
• OpenELEC
• Pidora
• Raspbmc
• Raspbian
• RiscOS

There is now also a recovery partition on the SD Card and this allows you to go back to the Main OC selection screen (see above) at any time to re-install your selected OS, or try a new one. Just hold down the [SHIFT] key when botting to launch the recovery console.

You can download the NOOBS zip file from Raspberry Pi Downloads or get more ionformation on NOOBS from RaspberryPi.org