Re:What is so great about libc5? (Score 2)

Sorry, but if your distro is using a glibc2 prior to that, it's based on a pre-release developmental C library.

That may be the impression presented by the glibc 2.0.x documentation, however, glibc developers recommended that distributions use glibc 2.0.x, and 2.0.x was on ftp.gnu.org (pre-releases are not allowed there).

-- Joel, Debian package maintainer for glibc