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On reddit, a user confirmed EPYC 3201 for DEC850 v1.

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

It's interesting to hear that you're considering additional versions.

We have been discussing additional home and enterprise versions, but nothing concrete was decided at this point as both come with additional challenges and require further infrastructure improvements.

Actually, I got one more question.

What happens after 1 year BE access expires? Do we need to re-install CE at that point?

Have your team or community ever discussed about the potential of offering unlimited (not just 1 year) Business Edition pathway to those who purchase official hardware without technical support component? Similar to the competitor approach.

That makes sense and good to hear.

Thank you!

Thank you Patrick,

Very helpful insights.

BE is not simply an older CE version. It's a completely separately maintained edition...

Can you please elaborate on this a little? Are you referring to the fact, BE choose subsets of CE to ensure the highest stability? Or is there actual internal codes that is proprietary to BE such as those code making BE edition that's more stable than CE.

By the way is BE also open source?

Since you have been doing a systematic, step by step deployment using CE, how often have you come across the issue certain iteration of CE (since their patch cycles look fairly frequent) where you feel like you can't push it to next level? If so, what were some of the major issues you run into?

Again, thank you for your insights! This has been very helpful.

Whenever there is a new community release the older ones will cease to receive any - possibly security relevant - updates. There is only ever one actively supported release train in the community OPNsense.

Ah I think I'm getting it.

Basically, BE, which is older version of CE, still gets their security patches. While that corresponding CE version is no longer active, so it won't get the security patch. So the main advantage of BE is stable, better tested version while still getting critical security patches. While CE has more features but with a risk of stability/bugs that community are contributing to test. Is this correct way of interpretation?

Is there any talk about offering BE equivalent for home user. Not sure if it's ok to bring up competition name, but they do offer lifetime business edition when purchasing their official hardware.

Thank you for the detailed reply.

Less frequent, less bug sounds totally inline with business setting vs. sooner newer techs for community make total sense. I like the separation.

But if BE is just downstream of CE, why can't we just wait to update CE until we see next chosen BE edition? Then use that version CE to update? Is update automatic that you cannot turn them off?

Or there is a bit more tweak/selective features in BE version as compared to CE?

Hello,

I am currently in search for my first real firewall for home use. I have narrowed down my options to essentially two, and Opnsense is one of them.

I am curious what will community edition be missing from feature standpoint when compared to business edition. I know business edition gets less frequent update, but that seems certainly not a reason why anyone would pay for subscription.

Looking at https://shop.opnsense.com/product/opnsense-business-edition/, the primary reason to choose it is "access to selected professional plugins"? 

I didn't quite understand what offering selective path meant. But I am guessing community edition auto updates while business edition allows admin to decide whether to accept certain updates or not, or possibly even more granular update selection over the CE?

The primary reason I am asking this is because I am considering to purchase official hardware for whichever firewall I end up choosing. I know its cheaper to build own, but it's just my way of supporting the developer/product as well as ensuring I get full intended experience of the developer.

With this, I see Opnsense will give 1 yr of subscription free, but after that I will lose it. So I am curious what functionality will I be losing.

Thank you