MIke Oldfiled?

[Jeff Mitchell]

On 06/20/2010 11:08 AM, Brian Morrison wrote:
>>>> I susbscribed thinking this was a MIke Oldfield fan mailing list. Taking
>>>> into consideration the messages during this week maybe I was wrong.
>>>
>>> Amarok is a music playing application written for KDE. It was named
>>> after the Inuit word for Wolf.
>>
>> Actually, Amarok was indeed named after the Mike Oldfield album.
> 
> Well, you surprise me, I could have sworn that the wolf logo showed the
> origins of the name.

Well, Mike Oldfield has said that the album title was not named Amarok
for any particular reason, but a popular (and probably incorrect) theory
is that it was named for the Intuit word Amaroq.

So, when Amarok needed a logo, what better than a howling wolf?  :-)

--Jeff

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