I think it refers to the abbreviation for Gran Turismo Special, a marketing term to emphasize the durability and strength of a car sold to an audience where durability and strength are not the norm.
Others may please correct me! 
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A recent addition to the docs:
In my head cannon it’s a Porsche 911 GTS, which is an insanse automobile but it’s not even the fastest one. And then the stable branch is the the 911 Turbo, and the latest branch is a RS GT3, not street legal, heh. But yeah the idea is lazily driving along but being able to punch it on demand. 
The car analogy is cliche but we’re infra nerds so it kind of ended up that way. If I could snap my fingers and have a magical slider in gnome settings for update aggressiveness then we would just call it “Bluefin” and the user can choose on installation, etc. and it’d be invisible. We try to hide it the best we can haha.
I always find it interesting that people focus on the name, the last time I was dream shopping there was someone in a GTS and I asked him what it stood for and he said “I don’t remember it’s in the manual somewhere.” “Do you love your Porsche?” “Yes!”.
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If GTS is a porsche im pretty sure HeliumOS’s stable images would be a model T
Nah, Linux at that update pace is paying for all of this, so I would called HeliumOS the semitrucks that keep our automotive fantasy going lol.
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