Forever ago I set up tooling to generate graphs representing the adoption of various hardening features in Ubuntu packaging. These were very interesting in 2006 when stack protector was making its way into the package archive. Similarly in 2008 and 2009 as FORTIFY_SOURCE and read-only relocations made their way through the archive. It took a while to really catch hold, but finally PIE-by-default started to take off in 2016 through 2018:
