By Karl Tremain
I noted whilst going to create a new droplet, a message regarding arch being deprecated. I use this build directly because it is lightweight and modular, giving a small “attack surface” out-of-the box.
Does this mean that DO are going to just leave the old build available for ever, or completely remove it from deployment soon?
Also, what would Arch users recommend moving to? I found DO specifically because it offered Arch in the first place. Any other cloud providers that offer Arch Linux at a competitive price?
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