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Licensing question for FW Home - and what to download for bare metal installation

I spent the last 45 minutes trying to get through to the support portal and actually submit a support question to the official support, but obviously failed due to not being able to register on the support portal since I have no current relationship to Sophos and the Home edition support is limited to Home premium users... well so here i ask then since my Sophos ID seems to have been properly created and validated.

I have a custom FOSS firewall but seeing that Sophos has a free edition available and Sophos has way more resources and knowhow than the guys behind what I currently use, well I may change and install Sophos on my supermicro miniserver machine instead... plenty of CPU and RAM

However, since I use my home network for work, typical SOHO setup, and I am an upright honest and compliance aware person, I just feel I needed to verify the licensing requirement.

  1. I use my home network for work
  2. I do not run my own business

So considering this I am still eligible for the free version of Sophos XG Firewall?

Also I am seriously confused by your download page: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/downloads/firewall-installers

Which one is it? No it is not the VMWare or Hyper-V one, it could be the 
Hardware Installers: Firewall OS for XG and XGS Series
or the
Software Installers: Firewall OS Software ISO for Intel Hardware
or the
GPL source: RED Firmware GPL source

What do you mean by Common Criteria? Any of those relevant?

Appreciate some assistance sorting out the mess...





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[edited by: Raphael Alganes at 11:25 PM (GMT -7) on 11 Aug 2024]
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  • SFOS Home will generate a serialnumber, you enter once into the system while installing a "software device". It does not matter, which installer you use - Virtual, Software is available. Virtual simply gives you already pre installed options. 

    SFOS runs a Ubuntu kernel, which is highly customized and patched if needed. 

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