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libc.7: Use absolute dates in discussion of libc vs glibc 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-06-29 08:04:47 +02:00
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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