Nokia and Intel combined effort towards creating a robust mobile platform based on open source solutions is getting better and better. Fulfilling the promise Imad Sousou (Director, Intel Open Source Technology Center) has annouced first public images of a new MeeGo OS available on Intel-Atom and ARM based devices. This is a day many were waiting for.

Since the community was heavily preparing for that event, I hope now we will see a rapid presentation layer and application repository creation to make planned release in May happen, however it's a bit challenge to get the image now as repo servers seem to be overloaded.

For early adopter there is a bit of guildelines available, especially about how to run MeeGo on N900 ARM based Nokia device. But before you start celebrating, be aware that what was published is base OS distribution with Linux kernel and middleware layer. Now what you run on this is currently up to you and what you make run on it.

Will this be a jump to brand new era of mobile Linux? Will it beat the phone market? Will you have MeeGo powered TV set in 6 months? Hell, no idea, but anyway it's worth trying ;)