Start by saying that I'm not sure if this is the real story and why Demm chose this name!
In fact he wants to be just a story, fun and hopefully interesting!
I've searched the forum and on the website, but I found nothing about the name of Kaos or its meaning!
So I tell this story I do not even know Demm: D
As I said in my presentation my early years of linux I was a Kubuntu user, and at some point on the Italian forum Ubuntu had created a group of users, that since they were not happy with how Canonical was Kubuntu than Ubuntu, we'd done before a series of proposed changes that would have liked to see on Kubuntu, and finally joking it was thought to make our own distro, a Kubuntu fork, where KDE was treated better, with more groomed Themes, programs best default and other customizations;
So at some point you had to choose a name for this distro, and I after some thought I decided that Kaos was a pretty cool name and suitable for a KDE distro, in my idea the name of KAOS was an acronym for "KDE Alternative Operation System "
Here I have proof even if it is written in Italian:
http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=422503&p=3316937&hilit=Kde+Alternative+Operation+System#p3316937
As you can see it was the 13/11/2010 😃
https://store.kde.org/member/203034/
Later, however, I abandoned for Kubuntu Chakra which had a lot of what I liked;
But if I remember correctly, one evening on IRC talking with Demm and jokingly told him that if I was winning the lottery and I became rich I would have done my deployment and I called Kaos!
Now I do not really know if Demm when he chose the name she remembered that discussion and liked the name, though in his mind remained and was pulled out unconscious, or if she chose this name for other reasons!
As I said this post is just to tell a story, and I do not know the real reason for the choice of Demm for the name, which was his own and no one else!
But I like to think so, and in any case it is a good story: D