diff --git a/man2/capget.2 b/man2/capget.2
index ceed5c358..126e3c9c8 100644
--- a/man2/capget.2
+++ b/man2/capget.2
@@ -22,17 +22,6 @@ capget, capset \- set/get capabilities of thread(s)
 .PP
 .BI "int capset(cap_user_header_t " hdrp ", const cap_user_data_t " datap );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-Since Linux 2.2,
-the power of the superuser (root) has been partitioned into
-a set of discrete capabilities.
-Each thread has a set of effective capabilities identifying
-which capabilities (if any) it may currently exercise.
-Each thread also has a set of inheritable capabilities that may be
-passed through an
-.BR execve (2)
-call, and a set of permitted capabilities
-that it can make effective or inheritable.
-.PP
 These two system calls are the raw kernel interface for getting and
 setting thread capabilities.
 Not only are these system calls specific to Linux,