Question on protection for linux

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It's quite hard to find commercial malware protection options for Linux. So shortlisting the limited options out there, I found "Sophos Protection for Linux" under your Sophos Central offering, which is a replacement for your Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux. 
 
 Just trying to understand if this is the solution I'm looking for: 
 
 Is this for servers only or can it also be used on desktop/laptop endpoints? 
 openSUSE has been "transformed" by SUSE into something akin to what CentOS was with RHEL, but it's not listed as a supported distribution. Do you have plans on providing official support for this distro in the future?

Maxim-Sophos · Accepted Answer

Hi hot head , 
 The required license for Linux is Sophos Intercept X for Server. The license can be used on a Linux desktop. (Sophos Protection for Linux is the name of the component/agent, not the license name.) 
 Regarding support of openSUSE, we consider Sophos Protection for Linux to be compatible with any distribution that meets the system requirements listed at https://docs.sophos.com/releasenotes/index.html?productGroupID=esg&productID=linux_protection&versionID=Agent. Only the listed "supported" distributions have been tested by our engineering team, but we have plenty of customers using other distros. It's unlikely we'd add openSUSE to our testing, as it's not widely adopted in corporate environments. 
 Hope this helps with your questions! 
 Regards, Maxim

Qoosh · Answer

Hi hot head , 
 Thanks for reaching out to the Sophos Community forum. 
 The licenses Linux systems will consume are strictly server licenses. It is not possible to protect a Linux system using endpoint licenses. 
 openSUSE is not present as a supported platform currently. I will follow up internally to find out if there are plans for this to be added. Sophos Protection for Linux Release Notes 
 The SUSE platforms I see listed currently are: 
 
 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 
 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

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