Its based on the Gingerbread source code and has tons of features. Instead of using honeycomb I put Cyanogen Mod's CM7 ROM on the nook, and that is a terrific OS. So far all the hackers have managed to get on the nook is a dump of the honeycomb SDK and it really leaves a lot to be desired. I will say I became pretty unhappy with my nook while running honeycomb on it. I think rooting is wise choice because you really unlock the full potential of it by doing it. I did however, customize the heck out of mine and got about all I could out of it until honeycomb source code is released. I kind of got out of the nook color hacking because I got a xoom and have been busy messing around with that. Nookdevs who started the nook project and have the drivers for it. You can get the current android image here. Xda-developers where you can find pretty much everything you need with a little bit of digging. Here are the links where you can find everything.

If you are interested in android development, using a microSD card and the custom drivers, you can make apps for android and test them out on your Nook.” “I myself and the XDA guys have been very careful to make sure none of it is done illegally or in such a way that the Nook's warranty is voided. The drivers can also be used to ADB Shell directly into the Nook's protected partitions.” I also have customized windows drivers for the Nook allowing Google's android SDK Eclipse plug in, to connect directly with the Nook. I happen to have the image on my microSD card and its completely bootable. Furthermore the XDA guys extracted an image of android 3.0 from the new android SDK and have it in a microSD flash able form, making the Nook the first device currently released in the world, to run android 3.0. Doing so does NOT void your warranty and allows you to go back to stock B&N OS at any time by removing the microSD. This allows custom android OSs to be flashed on microSDs and then booted directly off the microSD on the Nook Color.

“This is not the case on the Nook though, as strangely enough B&N designed it to first check the microSD card for a bootable image before loading the EMMC. Normally with most android devices, you need to first root the device, get super user access, and then flash a ROM/custom kernel combo if you want to mess with the devices booting OS.

“The army of kernel and OS wizards at have managed to get both android 2.2(froyo) and android 3.0(Honeycomb) to boot on the nook color.

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