Most of this information was stolen from the GNU Libc web page and from Ulrich Drepper's <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu> glibc 2 announcement and his comments.
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Besides writing this HOWTO, maintaining the glibc 2 for Linux page, and using it on my machine, I have nothing to do with the glibc project. I am far from knowledgeable on this topic. I welcome any feedback, corrections, or suggestions you have to offer. Please send them to thrytis@imaxx.net.