Having played a small part in the general migration to Linode ( http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode ) , I think it's unfortunate that Slicehost doesn't up their game a bit more. I actually started with them after moving away from Layered Tech, and Slicehost are good, competent people with a good product. They wouldn't be that far behind Linode if they'd ditch the "64 bit only" thing. They don't seem to want to change though. I wouldn't have even written that article if they had said they were working on 32 bit support.

Also, I hope that the influx of people to Linode doesn't degrade their ability to do the good job that I've experienced so far.