The Base Repository is a mix of Repositories compiled with x86_64-v3, LTO, and O3, and resulting packages are compiled against each other preventing, ABI conflicts that would sometime occur when using these repos as is.
The Repositories include:
- Debian Sid (main, contrib, non-free, non-free-firmware)
- Debian Experimental (Only Certain Packages Such As Desktop Environments)
- DEB Multimedia (Provides up to date multimedia packages with full features, such as ffmpeg with AMF and NVENC, or new gstreamer)
- Modified AMDGPU Stack (Allows packages depending on amdgpu to install on a modern Debian Base like PikaOS)
- AMF (1.5 branch, RDNA3 and above) and AMF Legacy (1.4 branch, RDNA2 and below)
- Modified Intel Level Zero Stack (Allows packages depending on base intel-level-zero to install on a modern Debian Base like PikaOS, such as OneAPI)
- Full ROCm Stack with versioning (with dev packages) + HIPRT Package (Compute on AMD GPUs)
- Full OneAPI Stack with versioning (with dev packages) (Compute on Intel GPUs)
- Full CUDA Stack with versioning (with dev packages) (Compute on NVIDIA GPUs)
- Steam sourced from the official Steampowered Repository.
- VS Code sourced from the official Mircosoft Repository.
- Discord and Discord-Canary sourced from Palfrey discord-apt.
- xivlauncher sourced from Maia Everett PPA.
- Brave sourced from the official Brave repository.
- Floorp sourced from the official Floorp repository.
- Mullvad sourced from the official Mullvad repository.
- ProtonVPN sourced from the official Proton repository.
- Many WM Packages sourced from AvengeMedia OBS.
- Includes custom packages made by the PikaOS package maintainers on https://git.pika-os.com/
- This is alo used by PikaOS to provide the latest version of certain packages (obs-studio, blender, lutris, mesa, firmware, sof-firmware, goverlay, mangohud, wine-staging, gamescope, kernel, etc.....)
- Debian console-data Replaced with KBD (Allows systemd-locale1 to enabled)
- systemd configured with KBD support, libxkbcommon, and locale1 fixed.
- mkinitramfs replaced with booster.
- Blender built with CUDA,OPTIX,HIP,HIPRT,ONEAPI, and many more.
- PPD replaced with tuned.
- OBS Studio built with Stream API Keys, and a few patches.
- GNOME: Replaced gnome-console with ptyxis.
- KDE: Replaced kdepartitionmanager with Gnome Disks.
- Replaced Debians Kernel patches with CachyOS Kernel Patches.
- switcheroo patched with Jan's Patches and Nvidia vaapi driver patch.
- Debian's minimal hwdata replaced with full hwdata with -dev headers.
- grub replaced with refind.
- software-properties-gtk3 replaced with the APT Settings Page in Pikman Update Manager.
- and many many more...
- fish configured to source /etc/profile
- All Desktop environments configured with mouse acceleration.
- ALL Desktop environments configured with Papirus icon themw and a yellow color scheme.
- mutter VRR and fractional scaling support enabled by default.
- mutter check-alive-timeout increased.
- i915 module with
options i915 enable_guc=3
- amdgpu module with ci ans si support
options amdgpu si_support=1
options amdgpu cik_support=1
options radeon si_support=0
options radeon cik_support=0
blacklist radeon
options nvidia-drm modeset=1 fbdev=1
options nvidia NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1
options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords="OverrideMaxPerf=0x1"
options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords=EnableBrightnessControl=1
options nvidia NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1
options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0
prime-run to enable optimus in cli applications.- Added a GPU selector for KDE Plasma in systems with multiple GPUs.
- scx and anaicy-cpp included by default.
- PikaOS Kernel Manager with ability to change scx scheds.
- pika-hhd-meta with gamescope-session and inputplumber.
- OBS Gamecapture and multiatium available in repos.
- Many device specific additions such as (lact, asusctl, supergfx, corectrl, nvidia-dlss-switcher, xone, xpadneo, etc..)
- vulkan switcher wrappers for AMDGPUs
- optional amdgpu backlight blacklister package (breaks brightness controls on 99% of AMD Laptops, fixes them on some lenovo AMD laptops though)
- pika-multimedia-meta: meta package to get all codecs, gstreamer, vaapi, and vdpau drivers, in both 64 and 32 bit form to ensure proper hardware accelerated playback.
- pika-gaming-meta: fetches the multi media meta package in addition to wine-staging, steam, lutris, and many more....
- and many many more...