[mpyne]

I would propose that if Linux were truly broken, then LibreSSL portable (the "safe" replacement for OpenSSL) shouldn't be released for it. Plain and simple.

If, on the other hand, an actual official release of LibreSSL portable does show up for Linux, that is an implicit acknowledgment that it should be safe to use on Linux (though perhaps with restrictions, such as "must mknod /dev/urandom in a chroot environment, otherwise LibreSSL will abort and crash your app").