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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It only says depreciated, not gotten rid of. They mean two different things.
Please, do not remove Arch Linux from DigitalOcean. <br> <br>Arch Linux is the same on distributions as like DigitalOcean is in VPS. I’m an Arch Linux desktop user and like how it is in servers. <br> <br>I and some contacts will leave DigitalOcean if you finally deprecate it. We are working with one year old Kernel and don’t said anything… <br> <br>DigitalOcean isn’t in the right direction with this change.
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