According to http://www.remote-exploit.org:

05.02.2006 -Mati Aharoni & Max Moser - We did it !
Yes, its out there and its wild. Below the E-Mail we posted on the various E-Mail lists:

Remote-Exploit would like to introduce BackTrack - the consolidation of the two leading pentesting live CD distributions - Whax and Auditor. The new distro features the best of both distributions, and lots of niftyfeatures, including the latest tools and exploits, an appealing interface, accesibility, and rich Python development environment.

More info on BackTrack:

• FAQs
• Tools
• Screenshots

Get it Now!
http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/BackTrack_Downloads

Don't forget, our very own columnist, Justin Peltier, will focus his monthly series on BackTrack, it's tools and uses. Tutorials for the true techie. I can't wait.

Don