[debian-faq] descendent vs. descendant
debian-faq says:
The Debian Project was created by Ian Murdock in 1993,
initially under the sponsorship of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project.
Today, Debian's developers think of it as a direct descendent of the GNU project.
(this was not changed since 2000, but ...)
'direct descendant' exists as a set phrase,
and naturally, this phrase looks like a noun
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendant says:
Usage notes
The adjective may be spelled either with ant or ent
as the final syllable (see descendent).
The noun may be spelled only with ant.
then, 'descendant' looks like a correct word here
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