Wheezy's still in testing, but I think it should be out early next year. The
freeze was a few months ago. I think the Testing is normally releases ~6
months after freeze, give or take.
Debian is great, and they have a large community. But one of the main things
I didn't like was that some volunteers and developers are concerned about
users who rely on non-free software, which is why they provide a non-free
repository. But a few months ago they created a mailing list for
FSF-collaboration, which has produced some interesting discussions so far.
Link:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/fsf-collab-discuss/
