No. MeeGo (.com) isn't a consumer-oriented product - it can't include MP3 codecs for legal reasons, too (just like Ubuntu). It might be installable, but not in there out of the box. This pretty much makes it unusable for Joe User (or gerbick?).

That said, like Ubuntu, it can be made usable. But that is an effort on top of MeeGo.com (feel free to roll your own distro or send patches to easily integrate those things)

Vendors, such as Nokia, take MeeGo, put differentiation on top (closed applications, themes, icons, app stores).

As a consumer, you'll want a Nokia-differentiated MeeGo.com-based system.

Is it possible to eventually port whatever Nokia-differentiation MeeGo.com-based system to N900 eventually? - on a strictly technical basis?

Two things here:

* Nokia-differentiation MeeGo.com-based system does not exist yet. We have Harmattan, which is Debian-based. We can't port what doesn't exist.

* Any differentiation on top of MeeGo.com would be in terms of codecs, applications, plugins, app stores.

This means that it is very likely that if a Nokia-differentiation MeeGo.com-based system existed, it would run on N900 by simply adding in the packages.

And last of all:

It isn't my job to give you this.

There's still a fair play agreement regarding Nokia binaries on Nokia devices in place and whoever wants to do the job is welcome to do it when there is a Nokia-differentiation MeeGo.com-based system. It'll probably be a matter of recompiling source packages (if even needed) and adding them to a MIC2 kickstart file.

My job is (together with the rest of the team) to make MeeGo for N900 hardware adaptation great and stable - a technical job.

This means that the reference dialer must be able to make actual phonecalls and receive them. That the reference video player will play Theora videos. That the browser (Fennec) will work over 3G and WiFi. That you can send and receive SMS'es. That battery charging works. That the kernel patches are maintained and upstreamed and kernel kept in shape. That both cameras can be accessed and used. That I can listen to oggs in a reference media player.

And many more things.

As Stskeeps, the consumer:

I don't personally understand why people are so hung up on Nokia's closed source apps, I mean, they're not the greatest.

I hope MeeGo changes the landscape and it is possible to download from Adobe 'Flash Player for MeeGo Handset ARMv7'. But all of those things are out of my hands but I'm seeing impressive change when it comes to many closed source bits and licensing/redistributability and I can only hope it continues.