I have built some versions of the NDOF branch, which supports 3dconnexion devices. You can find the files here. The sources are pulled from blender.org. It was built on Debian Testing, but should work on a wider range of Linux distributions.
Blender NDOF Linux x86, Python 2.5, GLIBC 2.3, 2008-03-15
Blender NDOF Linux x86-64, Python 2.5, GLIBC 2.7, 2008-03-15
Blender NDOF Linux x86, Python 2.5, GLIBC 2.7, 2008-03-15
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Blender NDOF Linux x86-64, Python 2.5, 2008-03-14
Blender NDOF Linux x86, Python 2.5, 2008-03-14