With this month's launch of the Meego 1.1 'alpha' and the recent progress porting Android Froyo 2.2, it seems development of a replacement OS for the N900 has quickly become a two-horse race.

Once djsteve, e-yes, and the testing community resolve the few remaining hardware/driver-layer conundrums (phone, battery monitoring, charging, etc), they're done. They'll be 'first to market' with a feature-complete alternative OS for our beloved little N900. And don't forget that Google just open-sourced the whole thing.

So even though the Nokia-led Meego team is developing on the N900 (for future devices), their road-map indicates a comparable feature-complete release for the N900 won't ship until October.

If a feature-complete version of each were available today, which would you flash?