Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

Dear all,

I Apologize, If this thread has existed before, and so if this is very offtopic and tiredsome for most of you here.

I'm a newbie, and just about to get my feet wet into the kernel-code, been using (GNU/)Linux (or whatever the name is, I personally don't really care, I caremost at the technical excellence) for the last two years, I personally think it's a toupper(great); system.

But after recently reviewing some BSD based systems, I began to wonder. And these are my questions (I'm trying to avoid flame and being a troll here, so if there's any of my questions is not on technical basis, or are being such a jerk troll please just trash filter my name and email address):

1. In what technical area of the kernel are Linux and *BSD differ?
2. How does it differ? What are the technical reasoning behind the decisions?
3. Is there any group of developer from each project that review each other changes, and tries to make the best code out, or is the issues very system specific (something that work best on Linux might not be so on FreeBSD or NetBSD or OpenBSD)?
4. Any chance of merging the very best part of each kernel?
5. Or is it possible to do so?

Anything else that matters, are welcome.

Please answer technically, I don't wanna be a troll here, and I hope so do everyone that answers this. I really like to learn, not to read some flame of who's the best.

To freebsd and openbsd list, please CC the answer to me directly, as I don't get response from the majordomo of my subscription requests, yet.

Best Regards,

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