This is kinda old news since it was announced late last year that Novell will support Moblin and being the lead developer of Moblin for netbooks, they have obviously also adopted the merged effort by Nokia and Intel (Maemo and Moblin) resulting in MeeGo.

Having just installed it on my Acer AspireOne, I must say that it works like a dream!  Even sound and my built-in webcam works!  Installation was one of the cleanest and almost effortless.  Once installed, you will be greeted with a pleasant and colourful screen.

I haven’t had time to try it out extensively but from first impressions, it works well, it is quite fast, there is a version that comes with Google’s Chrome web browser and it is basically a MID (Mobile Internet Device).

However, my flash within the google chrome did crash and there are times when the response from MeeGo was slower than acceptable (but that’s still better than other OSes I ran on that netbook), there’s no OpenOffice but I guess it is not for office productivity (however, a viewer may be handy, haven’t tried it out yet although there’s a useable PDF viewer).  Overall, I believe this is a great effort and with this initial version of MeeGo out, I would like to see what Novell will offer in their “SuSE MeeGo” version … Microsoft integration?

Oh, I think there’s no “shutdown” button, just press the physical on button on the netbook.  It really does make things simpler.