Question
Can a DO representative please reply to the number 3 Linux Community?
- Posted September 9, 2014
DO have not replied to the thread below for 6 months. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/arch-being-deprecated-by-do I need an answer before signing up. Thanks
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Months of warning ? I am not sure if that makes any sense at all. I noticed the problem when I tried to create a new droplet. The mere fact that DO can not support Arch shows the company’s inability to work with the best of Linux technologies. I wouldn’t put a huge blame on DO since they just started and probably they jumped into Arch a bit too quickly. Anyway, I am glad that I moved to Linode. I will definitely consider DO when I have a non-Arch requirement.
@ FlevasGR Arch is a rolling release. All they need do is create 1 image for the forseeable future. Job done.
Unfortunately, DigitalOcean no longer supports Arch at this time. The currently supported platforms are: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, and CoreOS.
They had a problem with the multiple versions so they removed it. I dont know if they’re gonna bring them back but acording to this: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/3276477-allow-custom-images they started a “custom image” system. We just need to wait :)