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I have not had much luck in finding places to discuss lightweight, portable software alternatives with other FLOSS enthusiasts. If you have any recommendations on best places to do this, please let me know: http://www.distasis.com/connect.htm

I have been able to find lists with recommendations of alternative software. I've contributed to many of them. If you're looking for lightweight options or alternatives to your current FLOSS software, feel free to check out the following resources.

I have my own list of Open Source software alternatives at: http://www.distasis.com/cpp/osrclist.htm
It lists alternatives to common commercial software as well as programs that can perform a specific function. I haven't limited the list to only lightweight software. However, if I know of lightweight alternatives that I like, they've been included.

I started and contributed to the following lists of software:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200226082503/http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Community_Supplied_Links
https://wiki.musl-libc.org/alternatives.html
However, I no longer have access to those wikis and will no longer be keeping them up-to-date. Check my Converting to Open Source list or this blog for information that I'm actively maintaining.

Some other good places to look for lists of alternative software are with the suckless.org and Plan 9 projects.
For one such list, see https://suckless.org/rocks/
You can find some of the source code:
https://git.suckless.org/

There was a discussion of unbloated coding resources on the Puppy Linux forum:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72359
There's also a related blog article:
http://bashismal.blogspot.com/2011/10/unbloated-resources-in-c.html

The K.Mandla and Inconsolation blogs (both written by the same author) are a great resource for lightweight and alternative software.
For some highlights, see https://kmandla.wordpress.com/software/

There are lots of resource lists on GitHub. I finally ran across one that was partially applicable to lightweight alternative programs. I don't agree with their groupings of which programs may be more minimal than others. However, there are some interesting programs listed including some that I typically haven't seen mentioned anywhere else:
https://github.com/xxzozaxx/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md

That's all I've been able to find as far as alternative software lists for lightweight and/or cross-platform software. If you know of any other similar lists you'd like to see added to this reference, please contact me.