Burning DVDs and 2.6 kernels

[John]

Mike Harris, X guru @Red Hat, just had a few unkind words to say about 
burning DVDs on Linux on one of the Fedora lists.

He says he always burns DVDs on Windows because, on Linux, it simply 
does not work with 2.6 kernels which he describes as "buggy."

This made me think, it's a while since I am sure I successfully burned a 
DVD on Linux. I have three DVD burners - two LG, and one whatever is in 
my Acer Aspire - not LG.

I used to burn DVDs quite happily on Sarge (then called testing). I'm 
not sure now whether I was using a 2.6 kernel (I was on some systems) or 
2.4. One of the Sarge boxes got rebuilt with FC3 (2.6.9-11 over time) 
after a nasty accident, another to FC3 when I was trying to resolve SEGV 
problems. The third is my latop which has never had Sarge (it did have 
Kubuntu very briefly); it runs SUSE 10 (also 2.6).

I generally use growisofs to burn DVDs; probably most redhatters use 
cdrecord with DVD patches.

I experience tends to support Mike Harris - Linux 2.6 kernels are 
identifiably common whereas _I_ use different models and brands of 
burner, and it's highly probable I use different software from most 
Fedora users.

This gives rise to the question, "What is the experience with then 
Ubuntu? Is DVD-burning properly reliable?"