[LAU] Looking for distro recommendation

I've been running UbuntuStudio 8.04 with a self-compiled beta of jackd and ffado. With the release of a new LTS version of UbuntuStudio, I thought it might be about time I did an upgrade. While my main audio machine is an AMD64 laptop, I built up some spare parts into a machine to evaluate the new distro before commiting my main hardware to it. I'm doing the testing on an old Socket A MB with an Athlon MP 2100+ (1.6Ghz) and 2GB of RAM. I've got a Ti-based Firewire card. I've managed to get US 10.04 loaded and running. I had to swap around video cards a bit, because my first choice would only start up in 'emergency recovery mode'. I ended up with a 128MB Radeon 9100, but it seems to ba a little heat-sensitive, so I have to keep the cover off the case if I don't want the video to go black unexpectedly... Before I got far enough to even think about plugging in my firewire interface, I'm seeing reports of bugs and mis-configurations both here and on the FFADO-users list in US 9.10, that makes me think I should also investigate Planet CCRMA, but then I discover yet another choice, whether to overlay it on Fedora or Centos, and I see a new Fedora 13 is only days away! Too many choices! So hopefully without starting a religious war, can you share your experiences, and advise me on what direction to go? Ubuntustudio 10.04 and tweak until it works? Planet CCRMA on fedora 12? Wait for fedora 13? How long before Planet CCRMA will have a f13 repository? Planet CCRMA on Centos 5.4? -- Rick Green "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009