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@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@ Linux libc released major versions 2, 3, 4, and 5
For a while,
Linux libc was the standard C library in many Linux distributions.
However, notwithstanding the original motivations of the Linux libc effort,
-by the time glibc 2.0 was released, it was clearly superior to Linux libc,
+by the time glibc 2.0 was released (in 1997),
+it was clearly superior to Linux libc,
and all major Linux distributions that had been using Linux libc
soon switched back to glibc.
-(Since this switch occurred over a decade ago,
+(Since this switch occurred long ago,
.I man-pages
no longer takes care to document Linux libc details.
Nevertheless, the history is visible in vestiges of information