Linked by Og Maciel on Tue 25th Jan 2005 20:24 UTC
In my never ending search for the ultimate challenge, I decided to remove Gentoo Linux from my trusty laptop and install something else that wasn't as resource starving. Thus, Debian was selected.
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If older hardware is concerned, I'd go for NetBSD 2.0 or FreeBSD 5.x/4.x of the BSD's, and Linux, well any binary distribution built for i386, that in case "older" is really old, i.e. <i686 (PIII, Athlon). My suggestion would be Slackware or Debian. For your dad's PC, I would recommend Gentoo but only if you're eager to learn a lot in short time and are at least a little bit experienced with computing. In the other case, try Mandrake or SuSE, they're more user-friendly. Just take care of the software you install, it shouldn't be the hungriest system resources consumer.
I myself use Gentoo Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD. Gentoo on my 3.2GHz machine, both other on slower ones.