avoiding new kernel hijacks

[Janina Sajka]

Thanks, Jude. I think I'll have to document this in the next edition of
the HOWTO.

Jude DaShiell writes:
> Line 3 of /etc/system-config/kernel has a yes in it that makes kernel 
> hijacks possible, change that to no and you prevent speakup kernel from 
> being replaced as default in future.  The 0 entry is the default kernel in 
> menu.list or grub.conf and it's what will be used to boot without user 
> intervention.  At least in fc3, you could also include exclude=kernel* in 
> /etc/yum.conf to prevent kernel updates from being installed too.  I'm 
> sure debian can do this too but haven't researched that so won't write out 
> of turn.  Anyone running fc3 really should visit http://www.fedoranews.com 
> and have a look at the faq file on repositories.  The reason it's called 
> fedora core in the first place is other packages useable are being 
> archived on other repositories and can be downloaded if you get the right 
> contents in a /etc/yum.conf file.  That site has a yum.conf file available 
> for download that includes lots more repositories.
> 
> 
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