How to Create Bootable USB For Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus (LTS) Using UnetBootin

What is UNetbootin ?

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD.
You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file.

Features :

UNetbootin can create a bootable Live USB drive
It loads distributions either by downloading a ISO (CD image) files for you, or by using an ISO file you've already downloaded.

Codenamed ‘Xenial Xerus’, Ubuntu 16.04 will be the 6th Long Term Support release of the hugely popular open-source operating system. The first LTS was released in June 2006. Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus will include the Unity 7 desktop, Linux Kernel 4.4, and a host of updated applications.

Ubuntu 16.04 Release Date

Xenial xerus release date

The release date for Ubuntu 16.04 has been posted on the Ubuntu Wiki, along with the date of the development milestones needed to get it there.

Prior to the final stable release on April 21, the regular version of Ubuntu (i.e. the one using Unity) will make a few fleeting appearances over the six month dev cycle. It will take part in second Beta 2 pencilled in for March 24, 2016, and the release candidate.

Ubuntu’s family of flavours, which includes Ubuntu MATE, do take advantage of all the testing opportunities at hand, with two alpha, two betas and a release candidate set.