Now that the headline got your attention, let's start with the good news - D-Installer development is progressing just fine. What's the matter then? To answer that question is important to make a difference between D-Installer itself and the live ISO image we provide for everyone to test it.

It is our pleasure to announce the availability of the first installation image based on D-Installer. Since our initial announcement in January, we have been working on going from a non-working proof-of-concept to something that you can actually use.

As you may know, YaST is not only a control center for (open)SUSE Linux distributions, but it is also the installer. And, in that regard, we think it is a competent installer. However, time goes by, and YaST shows its age in a few aspects.