Actually its not public yet... I don't know what he's going to do (and I could ask) and I honestly don't think he does.
Most of the other devs have jumped ship to make YAD on unstable/testing.... quite a few people (me included) are willing to stick with it so long as its not *buntu based.
But i don't really call the new unstable/testing CD a 'distro' ... kanotix was never a 'distro' at least to the insiders...IRC was mostly "debian this and Debian that..." (if you see what I mean) basically non of the devs regarded it as a seperate distro to debian... in Mandr* terms it was basically like running cooker with plf...
Come on, thats a little far fetched isn't it?
Kanotix is a rock-solid Linux based on Debian-Sid, which contains the newest packages and recognizes more modern hardware than any other operating system in use today.
Sounds like a distro to me, not saying it wasn't good, I did like it the times I tried, but uh....